Angela Davis Quotes
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.
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It'll be a home. I can call that a home because there's nobody but me and my family in one camper.
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This is the sports she enjoys the most. She gets so excited about it.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings…
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It doesn't surprise me that aspect of the black nationalist movement, the cultural side, has triumphed because that is the aspect of the movement that was most commodifiable and when we look at the commodification of blackness we're looking at a phenomenon that's very profitable and it's connection with the rise of a black middle class I think is very obvious.
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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.
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The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are industrially bred in this country is a sign of the dangers of capitalism, how capitalism has colonized our minds. The fact that we look no further than the commodity itself, the fact that we refuse to understand the relationships that underly the commodities that we use on a daily basis. And so food is like that.
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We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.
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We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.
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we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.
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Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
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I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.
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Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.
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We've had a lot of parents ask questions about the program.
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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?
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DHR has been my backbone, ... I love kids. I wish I could spread my wings and take them all in. I don't have a lot of money, but I have a lot of love and DHR knows that.
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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
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It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems