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Walls turned sideways are bridges.

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Angela Davis
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 29
Autobiographer
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
Philosopher
Political Activist
Politician
Teacher
University Teacher
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Birmingham
Alabama
Angela Yvonne Davis
Angela Y. Davis
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I think we need to insist on a certain responsibility, which people have - particularly those who have made it into the ranks of the middle class because as [ Martin Luther] King said many years ago in a sense they have climbed out of the masses on the shoulders of their sisters and brothers and therefore, they do have some responsibility.
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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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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.
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Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
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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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Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.
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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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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 would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within the context of the globalization of capital.
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I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.
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Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.
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A fair trial would have been no trial at all.
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Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.
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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.
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It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
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I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.
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