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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.

Angela Davis

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Angela Davis
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 29
Autobiographer
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
Philosopher
Political Activist
Politician
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University Teacher
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Birmingham
Alabama
Angela Yvonne Davis
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I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the US. Black trade unionists played a really important role in developing this US anti-apartheid movement.
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Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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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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we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.
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I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
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We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.
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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
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It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems
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If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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We must always attempt to lift as we climb
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I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected into commodities like kente cloth for example on the one hand and images like the Million Man March.
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As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners.
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A fair trial would have been no trial at all.
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