Quote by Angela Davis
Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to inc

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. – Angela Davis

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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. – Angela Davis

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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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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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To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain. – Louis LAmour

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I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can. – Mandy Patinkin

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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. – Booker T. Washington

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter. – Proverb

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