Best Angela Davis Quotes
- It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there… Awareness
- You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time. Act
- No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can… Agenda
- I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept. Accept
- Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems… Addiction
- When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for… Attend
- When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to. Bush
- We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia. Amnesia
- I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a… Believe
- Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't. Civil
- There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the… Aftermath
- It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals Depiction
- There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist… Bring
- When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely… Absolutely
- My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about… Age
- Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings… Beings
- I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general. Around Prison
- Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do. Course
- I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy. Accepting
- What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. Amusing
- Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous… Beings
- Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever… Been
- We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. African American
- Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for… Black
- Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.' Grasping