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The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.
Angela Davis
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Angela Davis
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 29
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Birmingham
Alabama
Angela Yvonne Davis
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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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We are never assured of justice without a fight.
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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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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
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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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I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.
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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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in this society, dominated as it is by the profit-seeking ventures of monopoly corporations, health has been callously transformed into a commodity - a commodity that those with means are able to afford, but that is too often entirely beyond the reach of others.
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When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.
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