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“The real content of any kind of revolutionary thrust lies in the principles, in the goal that you're striving for, not in the way you reach them.”

Source: Interview filmed in jail by Swedish television, 1972

Context Filmed by Swedish television in a California jail in 1972 while awaiting trial, she answered a question about revolution and violence; the footage appears in The Black Power Mixtape.

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Angela DavisUnited States · b. 1944
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