I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
It doesn't surprise me that aspect of the black nationalist movement, the cultural side, has triumphed because that is the aspect of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group. They have had to understand… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary,… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy… the economies that are going… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing. — Angela Davis Copy Share
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within… — Angela Davis Copy Share
Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy… the economies that are going to that… — Angela Davis Copy Share
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the… — Angela Davis Copy Share
You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently. — Angela Davis Copy Share
As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which… — Angela Davis Copy Share
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole… — Angela Davis Copy Share
I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the… — Angela Davis Copy Share
Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something. — Angela Davis Copy Share
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the… — Angela Davis Copy Share
It doesn't surprise me that aspect of the black nationalist movement, the cultural side, has triumphed because that is the aspect of the movement… — Angela Davis Copy Share
