Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
ANGELA DAVISAnyway 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
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History always seems to repeat itself.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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