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Prison Quotes by Angela Davis
- 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…
- Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of…
- One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led…
- Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems…
- When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for…
- Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings…
- I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.
- Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous…
- Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
- I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
- First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
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