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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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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My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.
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As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.
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Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.
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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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I don't think it's necessary to feel guilty. Because I know that I'm still doing the work that is going to help more sisters and brothers to challenge the whole criminal justice system, and I'm trying to use whatever knowledge I was able to acquire to continue to do the work in our communities that will move us forward.
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But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
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Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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Walls turned sideways are bridges.
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals
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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
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The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured to its presence that they could not conceive of society without it. Within the history of the United States the system of slavery immediately comes to mind.
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Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.
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We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community it was never a homogeneous community.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.
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