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

- 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