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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
— Angela Davis
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
We must begin to create a revolutionary, multiracial women's movement that seriously addresses the main issues affecting poor and working-class women.
— Angela Y. Davis
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
— Angela Davis
Radical simply means grasping things at the root.
— Angela Y. Davis
A fair trial would have been no trial at all.
— Angela Davis
Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.
— Angela Davis
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
— Angela Y. Davis
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
— Angela Y. Davis
even when police are indicted, we cannot be certain that change is on the agenda. There
— Angela Y. Davis
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 the Big House.
— Angela Y. Davis
You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
— Angela Davis
You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
— Angela Davis
We are never assured of justice without a fight.
— Angela Davis
I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.
— Angela Davis
We have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.
— Angela Davis
Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.
— Angela Davis
the struggle for an abolitionist democracy is aspiring to create the institutions that will truly allow for a democratic society. What
— Angela Y. Davis
We must always attempt to lift as we climb
— Angela Davis
Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.
— Angela Y. Davis
But at the same time you can't ...
— Angela Davis
Black women have been cultured to compare not connect.
— Michaela Angela Davis
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
— Angela Davis
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
— Angela Davis
Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.
— Chandra Talpade Mohanty
I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
— Angela Davis
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
— Angela Davis
I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change ... I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
— Angela Davis
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
— Angela Davis
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
— Angela Davis
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
— Angela Davis
Anyway I don't think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.
— Angela Y. Davis
If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
— Angela Y. Davis
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
— Angela Davis
We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.
— Angela Davis
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
— Angela Davis
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? The freedom to starve?
— Angela Y. Davis
Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.
— Angela Davis
If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
— Angela Y. Davis
