Angela Davis Quotes 3

Angela Davis quotes on caring about the issues that are affecting people today:

1. “I try never to take myself for granted as somebody who should be out there speaking. Rather, I’m doing it only because I feel there’s something important that needs to be conveyed.”

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

3. “It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.”

4. “But there’s a message there for everyone and it is that people can unite, that democracy from below can challenge oligarchy, that imprisoned migrants can be freed, that fascism can be overcome, and that equality is emancipatory.”  

5. “I don’t think we have any alternative other than remaining optimistic. Optimism is an absolute necessity, even if it’s only optimism of the will, as Gramsci said, and pessimism of the intellect.”  

6. “The struggle for an abolitionist democracy is aspiring to create the institutions that will truly allow for a democratic society.”

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

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