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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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Angela Davis
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 29
Autobiographer
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
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Political Activist
Politician
Teacher
University Teacher
Writer
Birmingham
Alabama
Angela Yvonne Davis
Angela Y. Davis
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The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured to its presence that they could not con­ceive of society without it. Within the history of the United States the system of slavery immediately comes to mind.
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
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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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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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That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.
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We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.
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It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
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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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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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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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I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.
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I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
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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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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
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