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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

History always seems to repeat itself.
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History One Liner Past Repeat
We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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Door Hope Jail Open Seek
Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible.
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Actual Hope Justice Struggle Work
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Death Deep Freedom Road Stalk
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

Capital Global Prison Problem Produce Racism Relieve Responsiblity Serious Society
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
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.
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Grasp Radical Root
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
I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.
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Absolute Alternative Intellectual Necessity Optimistic Thinking
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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Black Lives Matter Color Discrimination Gender Human Racism Sex Skin Stop
I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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Acceptance Diversity Hard Time Justice Strategy Synonym
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Prison Problem Response Social
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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Increase Pay Profit Racism Wealth Weapon
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Depend Live Public Society
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?
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Food Freedom Ideas Politics Sense Starve
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Equality Feminism Gender Involvement

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