Quotes By Angela Davis

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.