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Angela Davis (Social Activist)

Jails 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 Davis men

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

— Angela Davis time

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

— Angela Davis politics

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

— Angela Davis death

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.

— Angela Davis art

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

— Angela Davis death

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

— Angela Davis women

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.

— Angela Davis knowledge

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

— Angela Davis men

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

— Angela Davis freedom

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

— Angela Davis society

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

— Angela Davis need

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

— Angela Davis education

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'

— Angela Davis

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

— Angela Davis work

That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.

— Angela Davis people

In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.

— Angela Davis people

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.

— Angela Davis war

Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.

— Angela Davis art

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

— Angela Davis people

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

— Angela Davis philosophy

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.

— Angela Davis leadership

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

— Angela Davis fun

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

— Angela Davis time

But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.

— Angela Davis life

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