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Angela Davis

"What this country needs is more unemployed politicians."

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"What this country needs is more unemployed politicians."

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"I would die for my country but I could never let my country die for me."

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"Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is."

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"The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law."

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"We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today."

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"Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."

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"I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world."

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"I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally."

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"Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world."

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"I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues."

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"Hurricane Katrina this past week was certainly the worst episode in what has become an all-too-familiar and tragic cycle, and our nation is now faced with a set of unprecedented challenges."

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"When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to."
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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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"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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"Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been."
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"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other."
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"Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.""
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"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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"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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"Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today."
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"We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death."
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