It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
ANGELA DAVISIt is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
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 DAVISImprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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 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 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 DAVISI have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.
ANGELA DAVISI think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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 DAVISPrisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
ANGELA DAVISIf they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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 DAVISProgressive art can assist people to learn what’s at work in the society in which they live.
ANGELA DAVISHistory always seems to repeat itself.
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 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 DAVIS