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 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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Learning
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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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work
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Every reader finds himself. The writers work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. – Marcel Proust

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work

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. – Jonas Salk

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work

The biggest risk Ive ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasnt going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out. – Adam Lambert

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work

Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. – William James

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work

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Bear shame and glory with an equal peace and an ever tranquil heart. – Bhagavad Gita

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I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population. – Paul Robeson

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I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. – Anne Frank

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good

Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. – Emile M. Cioran

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