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.
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Angela Davis
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About Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis is an American Marxist feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), running for Vice President in the 1980 and 1984 elections under that party. She is also a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). She has been acti…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Angela DavisI 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…
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional…
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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.
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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 the fight of oppressed people all over the world…
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 most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the statu…
I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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.
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 an…
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 other parts of the world organized around the deman…
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.