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Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery ...

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

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through pol...

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Wc What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I...

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Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of de...

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

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early...

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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participatio...

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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assa...

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Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institu...

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I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to...

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Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz....

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

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Angela Davis

Political Activist

Born: 1944-01-26

Died: N/A

Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, philosopher, academic, Marxist feminist, author, professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS).More