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People Quotes by Angela Davis
- The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured…
- 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…
- One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led…
- When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely…
- 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…
- Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
- In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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'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…
- The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a…
- What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who…
- 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 the…
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