A review by bookish_afrolatina
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

challenging informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Despite the title, I found much of this book to be comforting. For one, we have Angela Davis, a woman who was once targeted by our government, sharing her insights on every issue from Black Feminism and Civil Rights to "terrorism" and occupied Palestine. Through all of the activism she has been a part of she is still here and I'm incredibly grateful that she hasn't given up the fight. One of my favorite passages is: 

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals in order for people today to recognize their potential agency as a part of an ever-expanding community of struggle.

Davis's words will probably be echoing in my mind for days and weeks to come.
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