Angela Davis Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Class, Numbers

  Interview, www.pbs.org. 1998.

• 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.

• Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the US has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Thinking, Class

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

• Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.

  Angela Davis

  Couple, Numbers, People

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

• Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing.

  Angela Davis

  Reading, Leader, Police

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

• I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Community, Black

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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