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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

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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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Angela Davis
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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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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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Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. – Colin Powell

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When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. – Isak Dinesen

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The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. – Meister Eckhart

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You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpopular, is that if Im going to work every single day, I dont think you should have to hug people hello every single day when you come to work. I saw you Monday! – Mindy Kaling

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