Angela Davis

Born 1944 · Scholar and activist

Angela Y. Davis is a scholar and activist whose work connects feminism, racial justice and the prison system. A distinguished professor emerita at UC Santa Cruz, she helped found Critical Resistance and has written books including Women, Race, and Class and Are Prisons Obsolete?.

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4 quotes we’ve traced to Angela Davis

“It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo”

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

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“The challenge of the twenty-first century is not to demand equal opportunity to participate in the machinery of oppression”

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“I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I’m changing the things I cannot accept”

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