Angela Davis Quotes About Prisons

• Las cárceles y prisiones están diseñadas para quebrar a los seres humanos, para convertir a la población en especímenes de un zoológico - obedientes a nuestros cuidadores, pero peligrosos entre sí.

  Angela Davis

  Zoos, cárceles, población reclusa

  Angela Davis: An Autobiography cap. 1 (1974)

• Cuando los niños asisten a escuelas que valoran más la disciplina y la seguridad que el conocimiento y el desarrollo intelectual, están asistiendo a escuelas preparatorias para la cárcel.

  Angela Davis

  Niños, Escuela, Disciplina

• Las prisiones no hacen desaparecer los problemas sociales, hacen desaparecer a los seres humanos. La falta de vivienda, el desempleo, la drogadicción, las enfermedades mentales y el analfabetismo son sólo algunos de los problemas que desaparecen de la vista pública cuando los seres humanos que luchan contra ellos son relegados a jaulas.

  Angela Davis

  Opiniones, Adicción, Droga

• Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

  Angela Davis

  Firsts, Problem, Prison

• En las cárceles no desaparecen los problemas, desaparecen los seres humanos.

  Angela Davis

  Problema, Prisión, Desaparecer

  Avery Gordon, Angela Davis (2015). "Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People", p.54, Routledge.

• One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led to the creation of new economies and the expansion of some old ones – I have already mentioned the drug trade and the market for sexual services. At the same time, though, there are any number of communities that more than welcome prisons as a source of employment. Communities even compete with one another to be the site where new prisons will be constructed because prisons create a significant number of relatively good jobs for their residents

  Angela Davis

  Jobs, Color, Numbers

• Los pobres, las personas de color, sobre todo, tienen muchas más probabilidades de encontrarse en la cárcel que en instituciones de enseñanza superior.

  Angela Davis

  Color, People, Prison

• The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.

  Angela Davis

  Country, Hands, People

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

• Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.

  Angela Davis

  Hombres, Pensar, Ser

• The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured to its presence that they could not con­ceive of society without it. Within the history of the United States the system of slavery immediately comes to mind.

  Angela Davis

  People, Challenges, Mind

• I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

  Angela Davis

  Prison, Social, Function

• First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

  Angela Davis

  Firsts, Prison, Should

• I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.

  Angela Davis

  Rights, Prison, Involved

  "PBS Interview with Angela Davis". PBS: Frontline, www.pbs.org. 1998.

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