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In many ways you can say that the prison serves as an institution that consolidates the state’s inability and refusal to address the most pressing social problems of this era. — Angela Davis

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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. — Angela Davis
You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.
Past struggles cannot correct current injustices. — Angela Davis
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
There will be no prison which can hold our movement down. - Huey Newton
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. — Angela Davis
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross-racial organizing. — Angela Davis
It is only through the imagination that we reinvent ourselves and our relation to others. — Angela Davis
The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.
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