I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy… the economies that are going… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I think we need to insist on a certain responsibility, which people have - particularly those who have made it into the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I can't really blame a lot of young sisters and brothers who believe that education has anything to offer them. Because as… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy… the economies that are going to that… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
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… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
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… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
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