“What can we learn from women like Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday that we may not be able to learn from Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, and Mary Church Terrell? If we were beginning to appreciate… — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
“The process of trying to assimilate into an existing category in many ways runs counter to efforts to produce radical or revolutionary results.” — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
“When Obama was elected president, a prisoner said “one black man in the White House doesn’t make up for one million black men in… — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
“This is central to the development of feminist abolitionist theories and practices: we have to learn how to think and act and struggle against… — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
“YA DA DO (Lovie Austin) Every evenin’ ’bout half past four Sweet piano playin’ near my door And turn to raggin’, you never heard… — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
“Our histories never unfold in isolation. We cannot truly tell what we consider to be our own histories without knowing the other stories. And… — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
“Neoliberal ideology drives us to focus on individuals, ourselves, individual victims, individual perpetrators. But how is it possible to solve the massive problem of… — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
“The majority of people who are in prison are there because society has failed them.” — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
“What I do want people to remember is the fact that the movement around the demand for my freedom was victorious. It was a… — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
“even when police are indicted, we cannot be certain that change is on the agenda. There” — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
“the struggle for an abolitionist democracy is aspiring to create the institutions that will truly allow for a democratic society. What” — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
“What can we learn from women like Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday that we may not be able to learn from… — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.” — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between outcome and impact. Many people assume that because the encampments are gone and nothing tangible was produced, that there… — Angela Y. Davis Copy Share Image
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