In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist. — 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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. — 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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The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace. – Silvia Cartwright

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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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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. — 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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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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Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. — Angela Davis

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