Unfortunately, however, these two theories are known to be inconsistent with each other—they cannot both be correct.

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In many ways you can say that the prison serves as an institution that consolidates the state’s inability and refusal to address the most pressing social problems of this era. — Angela Davis

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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible. — Angela Davis

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I think that many people have forgotten that, if knowledge is to have any meaning, if it is to be useful, it should have an impact in the world. — Angela Davis

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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept. — Angela Davis

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I think the quest for civil rights for migrants and refugees is one of the most important issues in the world right now. — Angela Davis

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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve? — Angela Davis

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It is only through the imagination that we reinvent ourselves and our relation to others. — Angela Davis

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Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. — Angela Davis

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When children attend schools that place a greater value in discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prisons. — Angela Davis

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