Angela Davis

"You have to act as if it is possible to radically transform the world - and you have to do it all the time."

"Freedom is a constant struggle."

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

"Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they receive from the labor of Black and white workers."

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

"The meaning of liberation includes the liberation to think freely."

"In a world of lies, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

"You are not obligated to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm."

"To resist is to hope."

"The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because the abandoned itself will be unjust."

"An absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

"I think of freedom as the capacity to think in a way that transcends the historical moment in which one finds oneself."

"Understanding racism as a system forces us to recognize present day conflicts as the residue of historical contradictions."

"The real work of change happens in communities."

"We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead."

"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other."

"Sometimes we have to do the work that precedes the work that precedes the work that we envision."

"Radical simply means grasping things at the root."

"If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night."

"Women do not have to assume the characteristics traditionally associated with men in order to be effective leaders."

"The prison industrial complex, like slavery, is profitable."

"We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline."

"A really important role that historians can play is to help us de-naturalize social institutions and practices that we might otherwise assume to be inevitable."

"Art is a tool for revolutionary consciousness."

"If we don't transform our consciousness, we will always tend to transform the world in the image of the oppressor."

"I think of community as a chosen family."

"It is not human nature which defines our possibilities, it is nature which opens up countless possibilities within the human species."

"The more we know, the more we're aware of our own ignorance."

"In order to transform the world, we must transform ourselves."

"Because I could not stop for death, I learned to live."