Angela Davis Quotes & Sayings
38 most famous Angela Davis quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She's an 80 year old American activist born on Jan 26, 1944.
“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.”
“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.”
“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.”
“We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.”
“What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.”
“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.”
“Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.”
“Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'”
“To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.”
“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.”
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