Angela Y. Davis Quotes

This is central to the development of feminist abolitionist theories and practices: we have to learn how to think and act and struggle against that which is ideologically constituted as "normal".

The process of trying to assimilate into an existing category in many ways runs counter to efforts to produce radical or revolutionary results.

[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.

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

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

Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.