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Angela Yvonne Davis, best known as Angela Davis, was a militant black American activist, author, academic, and philosopher, who was born on January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, United States. Angela Davis is also known as a radical activist and feminist of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). She studied French at Brandeis University. She also studied philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, West Germany. Then she continued to study philosophy in University of California which brought her an award of doctoral candidate by the professor Herbert Marcuse, a Marxist professor.
Angela Davis was a passionate activist who was involved in the case of championing the black prisoners in the 1960s and 1970s. She actively joined and supported a revolution. As an activist, Angela Davis was a good learner in philosophy and political arguments. She was offered the position of being an instructor and a lecturer in philosophy at the University of California but she wasn’t interested in it. But then, she was selected as a professor of history of consciousness in University of California in 1969-1970. Then it follows her career for becoming a professor emerita in 2008.
For all what had been passed, Angela Davis also wrote many books, there were An Autobiography (1974), Women, Race and Class (1981), Women, Culture, and Politics (1989), Blues Legacies and Black Feminism (1998), and Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003). To get to know who Angela Davis is. so let’s find out 30 most inspirational feminsm quotes by Angela Davis as follows:
“I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions.” – Angela Davis
“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.” – Angela Davis
“Racism is a way for rich people to make money by having black people work for less money.”– Angela Davis
“The death penalty would no longer exist if it weren’t for slavery. Slavery is another term for the death penalty.” – Angela Davis
“We live in a world where people expect you to forget the things that have happened in the past.” – Angela Davis
“I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change…I’m changing the things I cannot accept.” – Angela Davis
“I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be actively involved.” – Angela Davis
“Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root’.” – Angela Davis
“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” – Angela Davis
“Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.” – Angela Davis
“If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.” – Angela Davis
“We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.” – Angela Davis
“Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t.” – Angela Davis
“I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.” – Angela Davis
“Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.” – Angela Davis
“I’m involved in the work around prison rights in general.” – Angela Davis
“First of all, I didn’t suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.” – Angela Davis
“Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.” – Angela Davis
“When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.” – Angela Davis
“I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.” – Angela Davis
“If you want to understand how the world works, start with learning the difference between men and women.” – Angela Davis
“When black women win victories, it is a boost for virtually every segment of society.”
Angela Davis
“If they are after me, trust and believe that they will be after you too.” – Angela Davis
“When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he’s referring to.” – Angela Davis
“Racism and capitalism go hand and hand.” – Angela Davis
“In a prejudiced world, it’s better to be anti-racist than non racist.” – Angela Davis
“We must always learn to lift as we climb.” – Angela Davis
“I won’t tolerate things I can’t change. I am going to change the things I can’t tolerate.” – Angela Davis
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” – Angela Davis
“We are never assured of justice without a fight.” – Angela Davis
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