When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
ANGELA DAVISPrison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men 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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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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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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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