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poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished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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You just gotta use the sunset as a reset button and start over in the morning with every chance you get to open your eyes.
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Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.
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There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.
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I was born in Breslau on October 5th, 1930. At that time, Breslau, now called Wroclaw, belonged to Germany, and only German was spoken there. After the Second World War, Breslau became Polish, and the original German population was almost completely replaced by a Polish one. I have never visited Wroclaw after the war.
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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.
