Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
ANGELA DAVISI never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
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You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
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Anyway I don’t think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.
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Discrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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