Angela Davis Quotes

Intellectual and Political Activist

“There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. 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.”

“To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.”

“We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.”