Past struggles cannot correct current injustices. — Angela Davis

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

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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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There will be no prison which can hold our movement down. - Huey Newton

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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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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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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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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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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross-racial organizing. — Angela Davis

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