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Favorite Angela Davis Quotes

1. "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
2. "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
3. "We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society." ~ Angela Davis
4. "Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'" ~ Angela Davis
5. "To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women." ~ Angela Davis
6. "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
7. "I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively." ~ Angela Davis
8. "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
9. "We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death." ~ Angela Davis
10. "And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation." ~ Angela Davis
11. "I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general." ~ Angela Davis
12. "I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons." ~ Angela Davis
13. "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
14. "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
15. "Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today." ~ Angela Davis
16. "I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers." ~ Angela Davis
17. "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

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