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And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.
~ Angela Davis
About
Black
Certain
Class
Developed
Division
Guess
Liberation
Movements
Necessarily
Product
Say
See
Simply
Strategy
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Would
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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.
~ Angela Davis
Against
Alliance
Another
Around
Case
Create
Developed
Energy
Had
National
Organization
Over
Political
Repression
Soon
Trial
Tried
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Which
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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.
~ Angela Davis
Allow
Assume
Difference
Going
Laurels
Life
Live
Making
Making A Difference
Rest
Same
Same Time
Sort
Those
Time
Victories
Years
Years Ago
You
Your
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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
~ Angela Davis
First
First Of All
Get
Prisons
Rid
Should
Simply
Suggest
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Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
~ Angela Davis
Abolish
America
Became
Been
Death
Death Penalty
Had
Haven
Likely
Penalty
Slavery
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
~ Angela Davis
Actively
Any
Because
Decided
I Think
Involved
Person
Philosophy
Studies
Teach
Think
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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.
~ Angela Davis
Advantage
Awareness
Certain
I Think
Made
Measure
Opportunities
Possible
Responsibility
Sense
Take
Take Advantage
Think
Those
Us
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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
Achieved
Activist
Back
Because
Consider
Doing
Give
Historical
I Think
Importance
Individual
May
Movement
Ongoing
Part
Precisely
Single
Single Individual
Think
Whatever
Who
Work
You
Yourself
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I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.
~ Angela Davis
Around
General
Involved
Prison
Rights
Work
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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.
~ Angela Davis
Although
Cultural
Going
Good
I Think
Issues
People
Political
Political Issues
Politics
Problems
Realm
Solve
Tend
Think
Through
True
Which
Within
Work
Young
Young People
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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.
~ Angela Davis
Beings
Break
Convert
Dangerous
Designed
Each
Human
Human Beings
Jails
Obedient
Other
Our
Population
Prisons
Zoo
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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.
~ Angela Davis
Black
Couple
Decades
Evolved
Increasing
Itself
Labor
Labor Movement
Last
Leadership
Look
Movement
Now
Numbers
Over
People
See
Today
True
Way
Which
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
~ Angela Davis
Been
Ever
Far
Hidden
Kind
More
Much
Perhaps
Phenomenon
Racism
Same
Same Time
Terrible
Than
Time
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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.
~ Angela Davis
Black
Bring
First
First Place
Increase
Less
Paying
Place
Profits
Racism
Used
Wealthy
Weapon
Work
Workers
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Radical simply means "grasping things at the root."
~ Angela Davis
Grasping
Means
Radical
Root
Simply
Things
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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.
~ Angela Davis
Alternative
Being
Black
Color
Contemporary
Economies
Facing
I Think
Increasing
Involves
Numbers
Other
People
Problem
Status
Think
Thrown
True
Who
Work
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The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
~ Angela Davis
Against
Attend
Been
Campaign
Death
Death Penalty
Has-Been
Number
Participants
Penalty
People
Powerful
Relatively
Small
Those
While
Who
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The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
~ Angela Davis
Activist
Arise
Between
Certain
Contributions
Current
Desire
Inevitably
Involves
Issues
Political
Position
Requirement
Somehow
Survive
Taken
Tension
Time
Will
Work
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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
~ Angela Davis
Any
Between
Functions
How
Men
Must
Relationship
Society
Understand
Women
You
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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
~ Angela Davis
About
Liberating
Minds
Society
Talk
Well
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