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Angela Davis

"I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively."

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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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"Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love."

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"Our life on earth is and ought to be material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly they are still entangled with the desire for ownership."

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"A philosopher is a lover and searcher of truth, beauty, meaning, and wisdom."

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"There is nothing wrong or right, only our thoughts make it so."

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"Opinion about religion might be different, but religion should be one and that is the well being of humanity."

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"You may not be rich with money, Socrates was not, your life still has tremendous value."

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"You are the center of your universe, without you nothing is there."

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"The role of a philosopher is to create a better way for the future generations."

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"You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end."

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"You are the byproduct of your level of consciousness, thoughts, and actions."

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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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"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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"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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"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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"And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation."
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"You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now."
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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 this country needs is more unemployed politicians."
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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."
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