 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 are more impoverished than ever before. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Radical simply means "grasping things at the root." |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. |
