Angela Davis Quotes 4

This is our final post on Angela Davis and her powerful words.

What has your favorite quote or inspiration from Davis been?

1. “If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.”

2. “We have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.”

3. “Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative – these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.”

4. “Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.”

5. “There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.”

6. “Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.”

7. “We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn’t happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.” – 

8. “I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.”

(Thank you https://everydaypower.com/angela-davis-quotes/)