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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- Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
- We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
- Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
- We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
- 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.