"I'm involved in the work around prison rights…" — Angela Davis
"I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general."
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77 Quotes by Angela Davis
Angela Davis has 77 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.
- The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but…
- If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
- We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount…
- A fair trial would have been no trial at all.
- Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite…
- The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it…
- Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner,…
- But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you…
- It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which…
- I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
- Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.