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poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished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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The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African- American men, more than the next nine causes put together. So we have to do two things, as I said. We have to restore trust. We have to work with the police. We have to make sure they respect the communities and the communities respect them.
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It seems strange to me that someone thought of making marble statues.
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One of the greatest accomplishments in life is doing what people say you can't do.
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There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor in prisons and penal colonies, banishment, slavery, all seem for a moment to offer helpful comparisons, but on closer examination lead nowhere.
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Simply put, no society can truly flourish if it stifles the dreams and productivity of half its population. Happily, I see evidence all over the world that women are gaining social and economic power that they never had before. This is good news.
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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.
