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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The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace. – Silvia Cartwright

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Freedom can’t be contained within a paradigm that is individualistic. One cannot be free alone: freedom is collective. Freedom is about transforming conditions so that communities can live in more habitable conditions. — Angela Davis

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

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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time. — 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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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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Past struggles cannot correct current injustices. — Angela Davis

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The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb. — Angela Davis

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Leadership does not have to be individualistic… it can be collective. — Angela Davis

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