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The reason I am a communist is because I believe in a total revolution which is going to overthrow the capitalist control of the economy, which will seize the wealth from all of the giant corporations that exploit and control the lives of all working people.

— Angela Davis

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We take prisons for granted but are often afraid to face the realities they produce.

Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003)

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.

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.

Masked Racism (1998)

Particularly in the United States, race has always played a central role in constructing presumptions of criminality.

Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003)

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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

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