Quote by Angela Davis
My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the

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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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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Politics
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Yes, I think its 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 relationship with the trade union movement. – Angela Davis

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relationship
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Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. – Angela Davis

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Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice. – Desmond Tutu

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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. – Wole Soyinka

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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. – Daniel Webster

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Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements. – Nelson Mandela

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