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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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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Politics
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You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what Im attempting to do right now. – Angela Davis

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Leadership
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