angela davis

“ As the violent face of sexism, the threat of rape will continue to exist as long as the overall oppression of women remains an essential crutch for capitalism. ”

“ We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. ”

“ Walls turned sideways are bridges. ”

“ Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Ida Wells and Rosa Parks are not exceptional Black women as much as they are epitomes of Black womanhood. ”

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

“ I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement. ”

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

“ Because the Grimke sisters had such a profound consciousness of the inseparability of the fight for Black Liberation and the fight for Womens Liberation, they were never caught in the ideological snare of insisting that one struggle was absolutely more important than the other. ”

“ 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. ”

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