Angela Davis > Quotes

“Walls turned sideways are bridges.”
― Angela Davis

“When children attend schools that place a greater value in discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prisons.”
― Angela Davis

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
― Angela Davis | Presence by Amy Cuddy

“Mas a socialização do trabalho doméstico incluindo
preparação e o cuidar de crianças pressupõe um fim para os motivos reinantes do
lucro sobre a economia.”
― Angela Davis, Women, Race & Class

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time”
― Angela Davis

“It is incumbent on us to think, to question, to be critical, and to recognize that if we do not interrogate that which we most take for granted, if we are not willing to question the anchoring grounds of our ideas, opinions, and attitudes, then we will never move forward.”
― Angela Davis, The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. Any you have to do it all the time.”
― Angela Davis

“I became acquainted very early with the widespread presence of an unfortunate syndrome among some Black male activists--namely to confuse their political activity with an assertion of their maleness.”
― Angela Davis

“I'm stupid, I just told you how it will end. I'm sorry if i spoiled it.. Let it be fun again... There's a prison in the story.

Believe it or not.”
― Angela Davis, Blank Notebook: Abstract

“So how do you address that contradiction of progress and regression at the very same time?”
― Angela Davis

“It is incumbent on us to think, to question, to be critical, and to recognize that if we do not interrogate that which we most take for granted, if we are not willing to question the anchoring ground of our ideas, opinions, and attitudes, then we will never move forward”
― Angela Davis, The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues

“One of the many ruses racism achieves is the virtual erasure of historical contributions by people of color.”
― Angela Davis

“During the early abortion rights campaign, it was too frequently assumed that legal abortions provided a viable alternative to the myriad problems posed by poverty,.”
― Angela Davis

“Men of the capitalist class and their middle-class partners are immune to prosecution because they commit their sexual assaults with the same unchallenged authority that legitimizes their daily assaults on the labour and dignity of working people.”
― Angela Davis, Women, Race & Class

“It's not a fad, it is rather the force of a new intelligence against the old ignorance.”
― Angela Davis, Women, Race & Class

“I think it's important to prevent the term "intersectionality" from erasing essential histories of activism. There were those of us who by virtue of our experience, not so much by virtue of academic analyses, recognized that we had to figure out a way to bring these issues together. They weren't separate in our bodies, but also they are not separate in terms of struggles.”
― Angela Davis