Angela Davis Quotes

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Angela Davis

Profession : Activist

Birth : January 26, 1944

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.

Angela Davis

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

Angela Davis

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

Angela Davis

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

Angela Davis

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

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

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Angela Davis

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

Angela Davis