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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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Prison
Institution
Consolidates
Address
Past struggles cannot correct current injustices. — Angela Davis
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Struggles
Correct
Injustices
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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Quest
Civil
Migrants
Refugees
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept. — Angela Davis
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Accepting
Change
Longer
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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Possible
Radically
Transform
Time
In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist. — Angela Davis
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Society
Enough
Anti-racist
Angela Davis
Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t. — Angela Davis
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Justice
Indivisible
Civil
It is only through the imagination that we reinvent ourselves and our relation to others. — Angela Davis
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Imagination
Reinvent
Relation
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. — Angela Davis
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Talk
Liberating
Society
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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Freedom
Paradigm
Individualistic
Transforming
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. — Angela Davis
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Road
Freedom
Stalked
Death
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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Freedom
Inspiring
Political
Food
Leadership does not have to be individualistic… it can be collective. — Angela Davis
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Leadership
Individualistic
Collective
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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Sometimes
Work
Glimmer
Horizon
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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Process
Empowerment
Simplistically
Accordance
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross-racial organizing. — Angela Davis
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Communities
Encourage
Organizing
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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People
Knowledge
Meaning
World
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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Children
Schools
Place
Knowledge
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. — Angela Davis
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Prisons
Disappear
Social
Problems
Imprisonment is increasingly used as a strategy of deflection of the underlying social problems — racism, poverty, unemployment, lack of education, and so on. — Angela Davis
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Imprisonment
Deflection
Underlying
Social