I’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
ANGELA DAVISHuman beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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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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History always seems to repeat itself.
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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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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.
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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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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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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
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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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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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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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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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