I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, … - Angela Davis

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Angela Davis

I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement. Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.

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

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A fair trial would have been no trial at all.

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