First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy… the economies that are going to that… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
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… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
