Quote by Angela Davis
I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because

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

Other quotes by Angela Davis

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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Freedom
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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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work
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The suns rays do not burn until brought to a focus. – Alexander Graham Bell

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work

Dont be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first. – Brooks Atkinson

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work

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard days work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words. – J. K. Rowling

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work

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date. – Ann Richards

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work

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