Angela Davis

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

It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization a movement.
Angela Davis

Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary's life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
Angela Davis

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.
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

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

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

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
Angela Davis

Radical simply means grasping things at the root.
Angela Davis

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

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

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
Angela Davis