Angela Davis Quotes

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• Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.
• The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that?…
• If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
• We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by…
• A fair trial would have been no trial at all.
• Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies…
• 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…
• 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…
• But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on…
• It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although…
• I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
• Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
• I think it’s the right moment to talk about it because it is part of a revolutionary perspective - how can we not only discover…
• We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object- we don’t think about the relations that that object embodies-…
• I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary…
• The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the…
• Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the…
• Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a…
• 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…
• We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.

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