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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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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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. – Horace

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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. – Thomas Carlyle

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Im actually living my life with the material I choose to work with. – Ang Lee

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Hard work – I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesnt fly. Its all in the practice. It does take work and it aint easy – but man, the rewards! – Susan Powter

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