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I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
Angela Davis
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Angela Davis
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 29
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Birmingham
Alabama
Angela Yvonne Davis
Angela Y. Davis
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