Best quotes by Angela Davis on Work

Checkout quotes by Angela Davis on Work

• ‟ 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.

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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.

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• ‟ Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.

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• ‟ I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.

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• ‟ The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

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• ‟ It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

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• ‟ That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.

  - Angela Davis