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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.

Angela Davis

Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.
ANGELA DAVIS

Consent Consideration Feminism Guy Understand
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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Country Participation People Politics Racism Struggle World
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
ANGELA DAVIS

Feminism Liberty Mind Society Talk
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.
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Children Development Discipline Intellectual Knowledge Prison School Security Value
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
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Hide Perhaps Phenomena Racism Terrible
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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Acceptance Change Entrepreneur Hustle Inspirational
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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Disappear Human Being Jail Prison Problem
In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
ANGELA DAVIS

Enough Feminism Racism Society
Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
ANGELA DAVIS

Civil Decision Justice Rights
We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
ANGELA DAVIS

Door Hope Jail Open Seek
I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
ANGELA DAVIS

Abolish Function Prison Social Suggestion
Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
ANGELA DAVIS

Color Education Institution People Poor Prison Racism
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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Essential History Individual Work
It’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
ANGELA DAVIS

Body Female Planet Women Rights
It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
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Culture Issue People Politics Problem Solution True
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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Climb Interest Learning Particular Process Women Empowerment

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