We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
ANGELA DAVISWe live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
ANGELA DAVISWhat this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
ANGELA DAVISPrisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
ANGELA DAVISHuman beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
ANGELA DAVISThe 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 DAVISYou have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
ANGELA DAVISAnyway 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 DAVISJails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
ANGELA DAVISWe have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
ANGELA DAVISProgressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
ANGELA DAVISWhen children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
ANGELA DAVISFeminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.
ANGELA DAVISDiscrimination based on skin color, sexual orientation,& gender needs to stop. We’re all humans at the end of the day.
ANGELA DAVISYou can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
ANGELA DAVISWell for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
ANGELA DAVISWe should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
ANGELA DAVIS