Angela Davis

"If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions."

- Angela Davis

"In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist."

- 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

"I think there is a connection between, and I can’t go further than this, the way we treat animals and the way we treat people who are at the bottom of the hierarchy. Look at the ways in which people who commit such violence on other human beings have often learned how to enjoy that by enacting violence on animals."

- Angela Davis

"We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be."

- Angela Davis

"You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time."

- Angela Davis

"…Juneteenth, the day we celebrate the end of slavery, the day we memorialize those who offered us hope for the future and the day when we renew our commitment to the struggle for freedom."

- Angela Davis

"Today on Juneteenth: the day we celebrate the end of slavery, the day we memorialize those who offered us hope for the future and the day when we renew our commitment to the struggle for freedom."

- Angela Davis

"Today on Juneteenth, the day we celebrate the end of slavery, the day we memorialize those who offered us hope for the future and the day when we renew our commitment to the struggle for freedom."

- Angela Davis

"I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I’m changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

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

- Angela Davis

"When Black women stand up—as they did during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, as they did during the Black liberation era—earth-shaking changes occur."

- Angela Davis

"I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons."

- Angela Davis

"I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I'm changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

"I don't think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it's only optimism of the will."

- Angela Davis

"Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible."

- Angela Davis

"Whenever you conceptualize social justice struggles, you will always defeat your own purposes if you cannot imagine the people around whom you are struggling as equal partners."

- Angela Davis

"I often like to talk about feminism not as something that adheres to bodies, not as something grounded in gendered bodies, but as an approach—as a way of conceptualizing, as a methodology, as a guide to strategies for struggle."

- Angela Davis

"In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist."

- Angela Davis