Angela Davis Quotes

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty…

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.

History pays more attention to reformers than others. We pay more attention to dissenters too.

The function of a progressive is to keep on protesting until things get so bad that a reactionary demands reform.

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

The only weapon I have is my microphone and my unmistakable faith as a militant for change, veritable change.”

We are all going to have to see pain if we are going to bring about change.

Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.

A crank is a little thing that makes revolutions.

I'll say this for reformers—they're mighty patient.

Change never comes from the White House. It comes from your house and my house.

Don’t speak to the … converted. Don’t talk to a bunch of [fools] who agree with you. That’s not doing anything. Get your message out to people who would not ordinarily hear anything conscious. It’s not easy, but we have to be in the business of mainstreaming radicalism.

Only force would produce social change.

I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against oppression. My address is like my shoes; it travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Violence never has and never will bring constructive change, but my life experience tells me that most change is violent.

I have always believed in discontent – not grumbling, which is usually selfish and individual – but a disinclination to sit down idly, knowing things are wrong.

Don't let it happen when the time comes, that you will be blamed by the next generation because you did nothing. Don't allow yourself to just stay at the side, clap your hands, smile, and wave your as we create history. i hope you can join in creating history.

if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough--you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal. In other words, you need to be pragmatic.

You can’t change Washington from the inside. You can only change Washington from the outside.

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

The use of power to bring about radical social and political change in the 1860s carries important implications for the use of federal power to bring about change in matters of race, citizenship, and social welfare today. So long as this remains true—and there us no sign that these issues will go away any time soon.