Angela Davis
Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davisis an American political activist, academic scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Her interests include prisoner rights; she founded Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She was a professorat the University of California, Santa Cruz. in its History of Consciousness...
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth26 January 1944
CityBirmingham, AL
First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings…
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
These are the rules for the mullet hunt,
DHR has been my backbone, ... I love kids. I wish I could spread my wings and take them all in. I don't have a lot of money, but I have a lot of love and DHR knows that.
Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary's life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
She has built up a lot of muscle, and she has asthma so it's good for her breathing-wise, ... She's also developing friendships with older role models.
Sir, we happen to be on a mullet hunt. Have you seen any mullets going this way?
We had to get up at 6 a.m. and never had a problem. She was doing ballet and gymnastics, then dropped gymnastics,
We've had a lot of parents ask questions about the program,
When she was 4 1/2, she asked for three straight months if she could take skating lessons, ... I didn't know where that came from because I had never skated and none of her friends had either.