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Angela Davis
January 26, 1944 -
Nationality: American
Category: Activist
Subcategory: American Activist

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

   

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

   

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the 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.

   

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.

   

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 society any longer.

   

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.

   

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

   

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

   

I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.

   

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.

   

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.

   

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

   

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

   

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