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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” Angela Davis is America’s most famous living revolutionary. We give her her flowers now!
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00:00I feel that only through a total revolution, which will seize the wealth from all of the
00:08giant corporations that exploit and control the lives of all working people, but particularly
00:16Black people. For decades, Angela Davis and her Afro have been pushing the revolution forward.
00:22As an educator, political organizer, and former Black Panther, her fearlessness has inspired a
00:27generation of activists. In 1970, Davis was put on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list. Soon after,
00:33the Free Angela movement was created and became so huge that John Lennon and Yoko Ono wrote a song
00:39called Angela to advocate for her. She was later acquitted on all charges. Davis came to understand
00:44the criminal justice system on a deeper level, and she has been pushing for the abolition of the
00:49prison system ever since. Angela Davis is America's most famous living revolutionary. She deserves her
00:54flowers now.
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