Angela Davis Quotes About Racism

Quotes about: Racism

• Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the feminism that I relate to, and there are multiple feminisms, right). So it has to involve a consciousness of capitalism and racism and colonialism and post-colonialities, and ability and more genders than we can even imagine and more sexualities than we ever thought we could name.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Names, Racism

• Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.

  Angela Davis

  Racism, Justice, Diversity

• Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

  Angela Davis

  Time, Racism, Kind

• Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

  Angela Davis

  Racism, Black, Firsts

• We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.

  Angela Davis

  Struggle, Thinking, Impact

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

• We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.

  Angela Davis

  Racism, Should, Has Beens

• As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.

  Angela Davis

  Organization, Racism, Political

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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