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
Topics: Politics, Politicians
Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
—Angela Davis
Topics: Revolution
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
—Angela Davis
Topics: Liberty
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
—Angela Davis
Topics: Arts, Artists, Art
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
Topics: Racism
Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor—because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them… because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.
—Angela Davis
Topics: Birth
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women
—Angela Davis
Topics: Society
Radical simply means “grasping things at the root.”
—Angela Davis
Topics: Fanaticism
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Audre Lorde American Poet, Feminist
- Gertrude Stein American Writer
- Jane Addams American Social Reformer
- Rita Mae Brown American Writer, Feminist
- Langston Hughes American Poet, Writer
- Abbie Hoffman American Political Activist
- Susan Sontag American Writer, Philosopher
- Alice Walker American Novelist, Activist
- Emma Goldman American Anarchist
- Gloria Steinem American Feminist
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