Angela Davis Quotes
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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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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Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.
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I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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I don't think it's necessary to feel guilty. Because I know that I'm still doing the work that is going to help more sisters and brothers to challenge the whole criminal justice system, and I'm trying to use whatever knowledge I was able to acquire to continue to do the work in our communities that will move us forward.
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I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.
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we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.
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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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We took her to see Dorothy Hamill at the Morris (Performing Arts Center), and she was delighted, ... She thought it was awesome.
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There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
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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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You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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We've had a lot of parents ask questions about the program.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings…
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
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This is an opportunity for something positive in this community. And I am glad it is happening.
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The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are industrially bred in this country is a sign of the dangers of capitalism, how capitalism has colonized our minds. The fact that we look no further than the commodity itself, the fact that we refuse to understand the relationships that underly the commodities that we use on a daily basis. And so food is like that.
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We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.
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Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.
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I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
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DHR has been my backbone, ... I love kids. I wish I could spread my wings and take them all in. I don't have a lot of money, but I have a lot of love and DHR knows that.
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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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I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.