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'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.Angela Davis
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.
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I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
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What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
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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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