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the will of all of us behind bars

George was a symbol of the will of all of us behind bars, and of that strength which oppressed people always seem to be able to pull together. Even when we think the enemy has stripped us of everything, left us bereft even of our souls. The strength that comes out of an almost biological need to fe…

—p.317 Angela Davis: An Autobiography Walls (281) by Angela Y. Davis
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what is a Black man to do

Having read about my fight for my job at UCLA, he felt that I could assist him in constructing his defense. He wanted to call me to the stand as an expert on the socioeconomic function of racism. I would testify about such things as the incidence of unemployment in our communities; that most of the…

—p.248 Flames (147) by Angela Y. Davis
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the job of cutting cane had become qualitatively different

One day I remarked to a Cuban how I admired his skill in cutting cane — it was almost like an art, the way he did it. He thanked me for the compliment, but quickly added that his skill was a skill that needed to become obsolete. Cane-cutting was inhuman toil, he said. Before the revolution thousand…

—p.208 Flames (147) by Angela Y. Davis
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a far more elemental level than any professor of social science

If I still retained any of the elitism which almost inevitably insinuates itself into the minds of college students, I lost it all in the course of the Panther political education sessions. When we read Lenin's State and Revolution, there were sisters and brothers in the class whose public school e…

—p.192 Flames (147) by Angela Y. Davis
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a far more elemental level than any professor of social science

If I still retained any of the elitism which almost inevitably insinuates itself into the minds of college students, I lost it all in the course of the Panther political education sessions. When we read Lenin's State and Revolution, there were sisters and brothers in the class whose public school e…

—p.192 Flames (147) by Angela Y. Davis