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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
- Angela Davis
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#Leadership
#Myself
#Never
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
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#Hidden
#More
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#Time
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
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#Political
#Politics
#True
#Work
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
- Angela Davis
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#Education
#People
#Poor
#Prison
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
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#Leadership
#Look
#Numbers
#Today
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
- Angela Davis
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#Men
#Must
#Relationship
#Society
#Women
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
- Angela Davis
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#Never Stop
#Never
#People
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#Youth
I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
- Angela Davis
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#Function
#Prisons
#Social
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
- Angela Davis
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#Philosophy
#Teach
#Think
#Who
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
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#Division
#Product
#See
#Strategy
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
- Angela Davis
#City
#Country
#Learning
#Survival
#Time
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
#Difference
#Life
#Live
#Rest
#Time
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
#Back
#Doing
#Historical
#Work
#Yourself
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
- Angela Davis
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#Fight
#Politics
#Struggle
#World
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
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#Death Penalty
#Death
#Would
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
- Angela Davis
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#Constitution
#Us
#Well
#Which
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
- Angela Davis
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#Death
#Freedom
#Know
#Road
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
- Angela Davis
#Country
#More
#Needs
#Politicians
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
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#Dangerous
#Human
#Population
#Zoo
Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'
- Angela Davis
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#Radical
#Root
#Simply
#Things
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
- Angela Davis
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#Liberating
#Society
#Talk
#Well
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