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.
ANGELA DAVISRevolution 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.
More Angela Davis Quotes
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
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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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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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Progressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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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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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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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Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.
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