Angela Davis Quotes

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

Learning has freed more men than all the armies in human history.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.

Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

I've always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

He who dares not reason, is a slave.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

You must avoid letting anyone usurp your freedom of thought in any way, whether on religious or other grounds. People must use their minds and think and there are situations where the use of the intellect is necessary so that excessive fantasy or fancy can be held in check.

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

… law by itself can only address the symptoms, but education can reach deep into our heart, which is far more effective to set the society on the right course. So, education is the fundamental solution.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other human capacity is so vulnerable, and it is in fact far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.