Davis, Angela

"The pursuit of justice requires unrelenting commitment."

"We cannot separate our struggles from our visions of liberation."

"Knowledge is a tool for liberation and transformation."

"We need to develop new languages for talking about justice and freedom."

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

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

"You can't rely on the system to change things for you. You have to be the change."

"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo."

"We cannot look only to the future; we must look to the past to understand where we are."

"Radical simply means grasping things at the root."

"The work of building a better world requires more than good intentions."

"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people have to take."

"Throughout my life, I have always tried to see the connections between things."

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

"We must learn to think like the new generation and act upon their dreams."

"Education is the most powerful tool we can use to change the world."

"The power of grassroots organizing cannot be underestimated."

"Feminism demands a fundamental transformation of society."

"We have to insist on a kind of moral imagination."

"Racism, militarism, and poverty are interconnected."

"The movement for justice requires courage and sacrifice."

"Art is one of the most important tools for liberation."

"We cannot afford to be complacent about injustice."

"Music has the power to express what words cannot."

"Community is essential for survival and transformation."

"Our daughters deserve more than what this society offers them."

"To be radical is to grasp the world as it is and transform it."

"Prisons reflect the racism of society."

"The personal is political, and the political is personal."

"We must develop the capacity to imagine something better."