Angela Davis Quotes
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
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I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.
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The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
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The good of the people is the greatest law.
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He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing.
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I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.
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I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.
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The fights in future will not be over whether we ought to do something, but over how we ought to do it, and that's a reasonable debate.
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When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.
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I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.
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There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.
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Whether you say you can't or you can, you're right.
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poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished
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Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.
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The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.
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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
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Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.
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Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful.
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I think work is a privilege. ... It keeps you alive, spiritually.
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My biggest fear in the world is going broke and having to depend on someone else again.
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I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had I known the real state of affairs, I would never have allowed our aircraft to bombard and destroy a starving population and at the same time re-establish the Spanish clergy in all their horrible privileges. (10th February 1945)
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
