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And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowlyabout movements for black liberation and we can't necessarilysee this class division as simply a product or a certain strategythat black movements have developed for liberation.

Angela Davis

As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that haddeveloped around my case to create another organization, whichwe called the National Alliance against Racist and PoliticalRepression.

Angela Davis

But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.

Angela Davis

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of allprisons.

Angela Davis

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likelybeen abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the deathpenalty.

Angela Davis

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studiesphilosophy has to be involved actively.

Angela Davis

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we allhave a certain measure of responsibility to those who have madeit possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.

Angela Davis

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely becauseit allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a singleindividual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

Angela Davis

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

Angela Davis

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that youngpeople tend to work through political issues, which I think isgood, although it's not going to solve the problems.

Angela Davis

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convertthe population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers,but dangerous to each other.

Angela Davis

And I guess what I would say is that we can't thinknarrowly about movements for black liberation and we can'tnecessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certainstrategy that black movements have developed for liberation.

Angela Davis

As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that haddeveloped around my case to create another organization, whichwe called the National Alliance against Racist and PoliticalRepression.

Angela Davis

But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.

Angela Davis

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of allprisons.

Angela Davis

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likelybeen abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the deathpenalty.

Angela Davis

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies

philosophy has to be involved actively.

Angela Davis

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we allhave a certain measure of responsibility to those who have madeit possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.

Angela Davis

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

Angela Davis

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that youngpeople tend to work through political issues, which I think isgood, although it's not going to solve the problems.

Angela Davis

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convertthe population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers,but dangerous to each other.

Angela Davis

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasingnumbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labormovement and this is true today.

Angela Davis

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terriblethan it's ever been.

Angela Davis

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to