Angela Davis vs. Martin Luther King
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Angela Davis
1944 – present
Angela Yvonne Davis is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, author and social theorist. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS).
"It goes without saying that the police would be unable to set into motion their racist machinery were they not sanctioned and supported by the judicial system. …"
Martin Luther King
1929 – 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
Connections
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