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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

Angela Davis

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Angela Davis
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 29
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Birmingham
Alabama
Angela Yvonne Davis
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in this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a commodity that those with means are able to afford, but that is too often entirely beyond the reach of others.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
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I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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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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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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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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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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Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.
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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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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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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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Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.
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