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Angela Davis
said
Palestine is a moral litmus test for the world
— Angela Davis: 'Palestine is a moral litmus test for the world' (27 Oct 2023)
Angela Davis
American political activist, scholar, and author (born 1944)
- Fame63.4
- Momentum0.2
- United States rank#245
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- Fame63.4
- Momentum0.2
- United States rank#245
- Writers rank#167
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Born 1944 · age 82United States
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She went from UCLA lecturer to fugitive to acquittal in three years — her guns, a courtroom shootout, a capital murder charge, and a global movement demanding her freedom. The case made her the face of radical Black politics in the 1970s and never let go.
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Born in Birmingham in 1944, Davis studied at Brandeis and Frankfurt before joining the Communist Party and landing at UCLA as a philosophy professor in 1969. The university fired her twice — first for Party membership, then for inflammatory speech. In 1970, guns registered to her were used in an armed courtroom takeover in Marin County that left four dead; she was charged with conspiracy to murder and jailed for over a year before a jury acquitted her in 1972. She co-founded Critical Resistance in 1997 to dismantle the prison-industrial complex, left the CPUSA in 1991 to help start the Committ…
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Angela Davis
said
The challenge of the twenty-first century is not to demand equal opportunity to participate in the machinery of oppression.
— From Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (2005), p. 29.
Angela Davis
said
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
— "Masked Racism" (1998)
Angela Davis
said
It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
— "Afro Images: Politics, Fashion, and Nostalgia" Critical Inquiry. Vol. 21, No. 1 (Autumn, 1994), pp. 37-39, 41-43 and 45.
Angela Davis
said
Political repression in the United States has reached monstrous proportions.
— If They Come in The Morning (1971)
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