The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
ANGELA DAVISThe process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
ANGELA DAVISRacism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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 DAVISHuman beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
ANGELA DAVISFeminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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 DAVISPrison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
ANGELA DAVISPrisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
ANGELA DAVISWe know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
ANGELA DAVISIn a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.
ANGELA DAVISI think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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 DAVISI decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
ANGELA DAVISIt’s my body and I have the right to do whatever I want to do with it. So does every other female on this planet.
ANGELA DAVISAs a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
ANGELA DAVISI never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
ANGELA DAVIS