Quote by Angela Davis
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my peoples struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. – Angela Davis

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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 demand for my freedom. – Angela Davis

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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women. – Angela Davis

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I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late 40s and early 50s was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival. – Angela Davis

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I mean, the part you dont like, I mean, thats the only part. Thats the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But thats also just a fact of life in politics. – Laura Bush

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The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. – John Jay Chapman

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