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.Angela Davis
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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
I'm kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.
Caitlin Fitzgerald -
The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.
Marion Barry -
The good of the people is the greatest law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
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.
Anne Heche -
I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.
Anthony Michael Hall
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I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.
John Wells -
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.
Gaylord Nelson -
When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.
Pablo Neruda -
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.
Pablo Neruda -
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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Whether you say you can't or you can, you're right.
Walt Disney
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poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished
W. S. Gilbert -
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.
Ian Bremmer -
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.
Patrick Henry -
A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
Abraham Lincoln -
Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.
Ryan Phillippe -
It's deeply rooted in the American psyche. Black men have always been viewed as the other, which leads to a different application of the laws. The current laws are an obscenity. More black men are locked up for using pot than white folk are for far more serious crimes.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.
Michel Foucault -
We'd be looking at what differences there is in the population, building codes. Is it construction or people action? Why did people evacuate in one part and not another? . . .
Craig Fugate -
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.
Angela Davis