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Imprisonment is increasingly used as a strategy of deflection of the underlying social problems — racism, poverty, unemployment, lack of education, and so on. — Angela Davis

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No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
When children attend schools that place a greater value in discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prisons. — Angela Davis
My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice. - Dolores Huerta
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. — Angela Davis
Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t. — Angela Davis
You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time. — Angela Davis
Leadership does not have to be individualistic… it can be collective. — Angela Davis
Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place. -Theodor Herzl
Past struggles cannot correct current injustices. — Angela Davis