Angela Y. 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, violence and hatred are more 'natural' to human beings than equality and peace."

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

"The most important thing is that we have to recognize that we are human beings."

"Prison is meant to hide people, to make people disappear."

"If we truly believe that all lives matter, we must mean Black lives matter."

"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth."

"I think it's important to try to undo the way in which we absorb the logic of racism."

"The most important struggles come from having been excluded."

"We cannot ignore our complicity in systems of oppression."

"Love is a action, a working together, of doing things for the collective good."

"Walls create the wrong kind of security."

"We know the prison cannot hold our movement."

"History is not simply a record of the past."

"We must be willing to acknowledge our complicity in the structures we critique."

"To be a student of history one must have faith that something can be done."

"Radical simply means grasping things at the root."

"The work of transforming ourselves and the world is a collective endeavor."

"Education is the great engine of personal development."

"We have to struggle with the legacies of racism."

"Community is where you make your little stand against the powers of the world."

"Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings."

"We should not be surprised if the oppressed want to change the system."

"Freedom means taking on responsibility."

"We have to use history as a tool for liberation."

"Imagination is not the same as daydreaming."

"Strength comes from collective struggle."

"We cannot afford to work only when it is convenient."