Angela Davis Quotes


Race has become an increasingly obsolete way of constructing community because it is based on unchangeable, immutable biological facts in a pseudo-scientific way.


Citations

Angela Davis, Communist Party candidate for President of the United States, "Rope," New York Times, May 24, 1992

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Angela Davis
Angela Davis
  • Born: January 26, 1944
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Activist, Scholar

Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist, philosopher, academic and author. She is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Ideologically a Marxist, Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and is a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). She is the author of over ten books on class, feminism, race, and the US prison system.