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Firsts Quotes by Angela Davis
- Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
- 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…
- Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for…
- First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
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