We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. – Angela Davis
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late 40s and early 50s was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival. – Angela Davis
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
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my peoples struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. – Angela Davis