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“Le celle e le carceri sono progettati per spezzare gli esseri umani, per trasformare la popolazione in esemplari di uno zoo - obbedienti ai loro guardiani, ma pericolosi l’uno per l’altro.”

Angela Davis

“Quando si parla di rivoluzione, la maggior parte della gente pensa alla violenza, senza rendersi conto che il contenuto reale di qualsiasi spinta rivoluzionaria risiede nei principi e negli obiettivi per cui si sta lottando e non nel modo in cui li si raggiunge.
D'altra parte, per come è organizzata la società, per il fatto che la violenza è presente ovunque, devi aspettarti delle esplosioni di violenza. Devi aspettarti cose del genere come reazione… se sei un nero che vive in una comunità di neri per tutta la vita e passeggi ogni giorno per la strada circondato da poliziotti bianchi… Per esempio, quando vivevo a Los Angeles […] venivo continuamente fermata. La polizia non sapeva chi fossi. Ma ero una donna nera con la pettinatura afro e loro pensavano, suppongo, che fossi una "militante."”

Angela Davis

When you talk about revolution, most people think violence, without realizing that the real content of any kind of revolutionary thrust lies in the principles and the goals that you're striving for, not in the way you reach them.
On the other hand, because of the way this society is organized, because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere, you have to expect that there are going to be such explosions. You have to expect things like that as reactions... if you are a black person and live in the black community all your life and walk out on the street everyday seeing white policemen surrounding you... when I was living in Los Angeles, for instance (long before the situation in L.A. ever occurred) I was constantly stopped. No, the police didn't know who I was. But I was a black women and I had a natural and they, I suppose thought I might be "militant."
Origine: Da un'intervista condotta da Bo Holmström nel 1972, California State Prison, visibile nel documentario The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Origine: Citato in Giulia Siviero, Angela Davis e la violenza di Baltimora http://www.ilpost.it/giuliasiviero/2015/04/29/angela-davis-ci-aiuta-spiegare-la-violenza-baltimora/, IlPost.it, 29 aprile 2015.

“Quando qualcuno mi chiede conto della violenza, lo trovo semplicemente incredibile. Perché questo vuol dire che la persona che mi sta facendo questa domanda non ha assolutamente idea di cosa il popolo nero abbia passato, di quello che il popolo nero abbia sperimentato in questo paese dal momento in cui il primo di loro è stato rapito dalle coste dell'Africa.”

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Angela Davis: Frasi in inglese

“Judged by the evolving nineteenth-century ideology of femininity, which emphasized women’s roles as nurturing mothers and gentle companions and housekeepers for their husbands, Black women were practically anomalies.”

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Women, Race and Class (1983)

“Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.”

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"Black Nationalism: The Sixties and the Nineties." Black Popular Culture, ed. Gina Dent (Seattle, Wash: Bay Press, 1992), 324.

“Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings. And the practice of disappearing vast numbers of people from poor, immigrant and racially marginalized communities has literally become big business.”

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Origine: "Masked Racism" (1998)

“There is this freedom movement and then there is an attempt to narrow the freedom movement so that it fits into a much smaller frame, the frame of civil rights. Not that civil rights is not immensely important, but freedom is more expansive that civil rights. And as that movement grew and developed it was inspired by and in turn inspired liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Australia. It was not only a question of acquiring the formal rights to fully participate in society, but rather it was also about substantive rights—it was about jobs, free education, free health care, affordable housing, and also about ending the racist police occupation of black communities.”

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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Closures and Continuities (2013)

“Regimes of racial segregation were not disestablished because of the work of leaders and presidents and legislators but rather because of the fact that ordinary people adopted a critical stance in the way in which they perceived their relationship to reality. Social realities that may have appeared inalterable, impenetrable, came to be viewed as malleable and transformable; and people learned how to imagine what it might mean to live in a world that was not so exclusively governed by the principle of white supremacy. This collective consciousness emerged within the context of social struggles.”

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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Closures and Continuities (2013)

“We believe that the most pressing political necessity is the consolidation of a United Front joining together all sections of the revolutionary, radical and democratic movements. Only a united front—led in the first place by the national liberation movements and the working people—can decisively counter, theoretically, ideologically and practically, the increasingly fascistic and genocidal posture of the present ruling clique”

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If They Come in The Morning (1971)

“An attempt to create a new conceptual terrain for imagining alternatives to imprisonment involves the ideological work of questioning why "criminals" have been constituted as a class and, indeed, a class of human beings undeserving of the civil and human rights accorded to others. Radical criminologists have long pointed out that the category "lawbreakers" is far greater than the category of individuals who are deemed criminals since, many point out, almost all of us have broken the law at one time or another.”

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Angela Davis Are Prisons Obsolete?

Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003)

“Racist oppression invades the lives of Black people on an infinite variety of levels. Blacks are imprisoned in a world where our labor and toil hardly allow us to eke out a decent existence, if we are able to find jobs at all. When the economy begins to falter, we are forever the first victims, always the most deeply wounded. When the economy is on its feet, we continue to live in a depressed state. Unemployment is generally twice as high in the ghettos as it is in the country as a whole and even higher among Black women and youth. The unemployment rate among Black youth has presently skyrocketed to 30 per cent. If one-third of America’s white youth were without a means of livelihood, we would either be in the thick of revolution or else under the iron rule of fascism. Substandard schools, medical care hardly fit for animals, overpriced, dilapidated housing, a welfare system based on a policy of skimpy concessions, designed to degrade and divide (and even this may soon be cancelled)—this is only the beginning of the list of props in the overall scenery of oppression which, for the mass of Blacks, is the universe.”

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If They Come in The Morning (1971)

“It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.”

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"Afro Images: Politics, Fashion, and Nostalgia" Critical Inquiry. Vol. 21, No. 1 (Autumn, 1994), pp. 37-39, 41-43 and 45.

“The historical significance of the Proclamation is not so much that it enacted the emancipation of people of African descent; on the contrary, it was a military strategy. But if we examine the meaning of this historical moment we might better be able to grasp the failures as well as the successes of emancipation. I have thought that perhaps we were not asked to reflect on the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation because we might realize that we were never really emancipated. But anyway, at least we may be able to understand the dialectics of emancipation; because we still live the popular myth that Lincoln freed the slaves and that this continues to be perpetuated in popular culture, even by the film Lincoln.”

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Angela Davis

Lincoln did not free the slaves. We also live with the myth that the mid-twentieth century Civil Rights Movement freed the second-class citizens. Civil rights, of course, constitute an essential element of the freedom that was demanded at that time, but it was not the whole story.
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Closures and Continuities (2013)