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 prison.
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 DAVISWe should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be.
ANGELA DAVISRacism 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.
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 DAVISThe only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.
ANGELA DAVISHuman beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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 DAVISIf we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
ANGELA DAVISIf they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
ANGELA DAVISSometimes 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 DAVISHistory always seems to repeat itself.
ANGELA DAVISWe live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia
ANGELA DAVISRadical simply means “grasping things at the root.
ANGELA DAVISI’m suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
ANGELA DAVISWe know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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 DAVIS