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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Relationship
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- Nov 07, 2020
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
- Nov 07, 2020
Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020