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I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.

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Angela Davis
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 29
Autobiographer
Feminist
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Politician
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Birmingham
Alabama
Angela Yvonne Davis
Angela Y. Davis
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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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 think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.
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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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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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As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
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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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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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Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.
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Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing.
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Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.
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But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life
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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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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.
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And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.
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