Angela Davis Quotes:-
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Angela Davis Quotes on Feminism
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the feminism that I relate to, and there are multiple feminisms, right). So it has to involve a consciousness of capitalism and racism and colonialism and post-colonial ties, and ability and more genders than we can even imagine and more sexualities than we ever thought we could name.
I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.
Angela Davis Quotes on Education
Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
Angela Davis Quotes i am no Longer
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
Angela Davis Quotes on Capitalism
We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations – that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor.
I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.
The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are industrially bred in this country is a sign of the dangers of capitalism, how capitalism has colonized our minds. The fact that we look no further than the commodity itself, the fact that we refuse to understand the relationships that underlie the commodities that we use on a daily basis. And so food is like that.
Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.
Angela Davis Quotes Change the Things
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
Angela Davis Quotes on Civil Rights
I do think it’s extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement. Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.
Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
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 Quotes on Justice
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.
Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.
Angela Davis Quotes on Violence
I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.
There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
The early feminist argument that violence against women is not inherently a private matter, but has been privatized by the sexist structures of the state, the economy, and the family has had a powerful impact on public consciousness.
When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the feminism that I relate to, and there are multiple feminisms, right). So it has to involve a consciousness of capitalism and racism and colonialism and post-colonial ties, and ability and more genders than we can even imagine and more sexualities than we ever thought we could name.
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
We are never assured of justice without a fight.
Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.
I don’t think it’s necessary to feel guilty. Because I know that I’m still doing the work that is going to help more sisters and brothers to challenge the whole criminal justice system, and I’m trying to use whatever knowledge I was able to acquire to continue to do the work in our communities that will move us forward.
I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.