"To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.“

-Angela Davis

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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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"We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death."

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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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"To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women."

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"I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival."

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"I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers."

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