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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.

Angela Davis

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
ANGELA DAVIS

Existence Human Being Wisdom
If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
ANGELA DAVIS

Action Black Lives Matter Direction Mislead Racism
Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
ANGELA DAVIS

Development Perhaps Racism Vision Women
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
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 DAVIS

Children Development Discipline Intellectual Knowledge Prison School Security Value
No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
ANGELA DAVIS

Agenda Consideration Equality Movement Seek Women
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
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Country Participation People Politics Racism Struggle World
You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
ANGELA DAVIS

Criticism Decent Life Live People Want
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
ANGELA DAVIS

Depend Live Public Society
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
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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Attempt Campaign Death Participation Penalty Powerful
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Country Need Politics Unemployment
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
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.
ANGELA DAVIS

Absolute Alternative Intellectual Necessity Optimistic Thinking
I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
ANGELA DAVIS

Abolish Function Prison Social Suggestion

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