The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
ANGELA DAVISThe campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
ANGELA DAVISIt is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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 DAVISJustice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
ANGELA DAVISImprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
ANGELA DAVISWe know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
ANGELA DAVISEqual pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.
ANGELA DAVISI never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
ANGELA DAVISIf we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
ANGELA DAVISI decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
ANGELA DAVISFeminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender.
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 DAVISRadical simply means “grasping things at the root.
ANGELA DAVISIt is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.
ANGELA DAVISRevolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
ANGELA DAVISWalls turned sideways are bridges.
ANGELA DAVIS