Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
ANGELA DAVISAs 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.
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 live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
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Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
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I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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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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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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