12 Top Angela Davis Quotes You Need To Know

Best Angela Davis Quotes

Enjoy 12 top Angela Davis quotes on life and other topics. Quotes by Angela Davis, Political Activist.

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1 Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.”

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

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

4 If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.”

5 When Obama was elected president, a prisoner said “one black man in the White House doesn’t make up for one million black men in the Big House.

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6 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?

7 Angela Davis Quote About The Deindustrialization Of The Economy

One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led to the creation of new economies and the expansion of some old ones – I have already mentioned the drug trade and the market for sexual services. At the same time, though, there are any number of communities that more than welcome prisons as a source of employment. Communities even compete with one another to be the site where new prisons will be constructed because prisons create a significant number of relatively good jobs for their residents.

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8 [Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.

9 I try never to take myself for granted as somebody who should be out there speaking. Rather, I’m doing it only because I feel there’s something important that needs to be conveyed.

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10 Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensity social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

11 Angela Davis Quote About A Woman Of Color Formation

A woman of color formation might decide to work around immigration issues. This political commitment is not based on the specific histories of racialized communities or its constituent members, but rather constructs an agenda agreed upon by all who are a part of it. In my opinion, the most exciting potential of women of color formations resides in the possibility of politicizing this identity – basing the identity on politics rather than the politics on identity.

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12 Angela Davis Quote About The Memories Of Slavery

We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers.

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