24 quotes by Angela Davis to fight for human rights

It’s not enough not to be racist, you have to be anti-racist.

When children attend schools that value discipline and safety more than knowledge and intellectual development, they attend prison preparatory schools.

We need to reflect a lot to understand the intersections between race, class and gender, in order to realize that between these categories there are relationships that are mutual and others that are crossed. No one can assume the primacy of one category over the others.

We need to think about how much racism impedes the social mobility of the black population.

We have a class problem. And racism also creates a gender hierarchy, leaving black women in a much greater situation of social vulnerability.

We all have to participate to ensure that something is done to stop the racist damage that is happening to our communities across the country.

If all lives mattered, we wouldn’t need to emphatically proclaim that black lives matter.

Freedom is a constant struggle.

There has to be a feminism that is broad. That recognizes that capitalism has always been connected with racism.

A democracy that excludes black women is not a democracy at all.

When the black woman moves, the entire structure of society moves with her.

Adopting incarceration to solve problems like domestic violence reproduces the violence we try to eradicate.

I don’t believe it’s healthy to pick one fight and say it’s more important than another, but rather to recognize how different fights connect.

It is not individual people who decide that violence is the answer; it is the institutions around us that are saturated with violence.

Let’s start now what should have been done a century and a half ago. This is just the beginning. It’s very exciting. And first of all, we can’t stop.

When we say “black lives matter” we are not talking about a specific group, we are talking about humanity. And the same argument applies to the trans community.

We represent the powerful forces of change that are determined to prevent the dying cultures of racism and heterosexual patriarchy from rising again.

The struggles for freedom of black people that shaped the very nature of this country’s history cannot be erased with the wave of a hand.

We are active agents of history and history cannot be erased like internet pages!

We can’t forget that black lives matter.

No human being is illegal.

This is a country anchored in slavery and colonialism. Which means, for better or worse, that the history of the United States itself is a history of immigration and slavery.

The fight to save the planet, to stop climate change, to guarantee access to water, (…), the fight to save our flora and fauna, to save the earth, this is ground zero for social justice.