Angela Davis Quotes

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.

You can’t criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.

I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change…I’m changing the things I cannot accept.

The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I’m attempting to do right now.

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.

There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

The 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?

Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative – these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.