Angela Davis Quotes

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

Angela Davis

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• I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Career
  • Movies
  • Divorce

• Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • World
  • Adventure

• Success is not two cars or a swimming pool. It's the approval of your peers.

  

  Peter Finch
  • Success
  • Pool
  • Swimming

• You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Love
  • Fact
  • Asking

• The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

  

  B. W. Powe

• Our government has to be held accountable for enforcing the law. Tamir Rice, the fact that they could exonerate that police person [who killed him], and Tamir's family was charged for the ambulance to take him [to the hospital]. It's inhumane.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Family
  • Law
  • Government

• Let the love of Allah heal you. And free you.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Free

• George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Guy

• Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Men
  • Sound Sense

• Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report, when, perhaps, they find the contrary within.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Opinions

• To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Philosopher
  • Live Alone

• Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?

  

  William Powell
  • Fool
  • Dumb
  • Democrat

• I know there will be no more tears in heaven.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Heaven
  • Knows
  • Tears

• The first space walk, it's really got your attention. You know you're travelling eight times faster than a rifle bullet, and you're outside. Second space walk, you're a lot more relaxed, you're looking over your shoulder, admiring the view of Earth. What was funny about the third space walk was that mission control in Houston called and said, "Take a moment and enjoy the view".

  

  Dafydd Williams
  • Earth
  • Attention
  • Moments

• Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.

  

  Rufus Choate
  • Respect
  • Reason
  • Security

• The function of abundance is not to possess things but to use them and gather experiences.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Humor
  • Use
  • Function

• As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.

  

  Steve Israel
  • Today
  • Security
  • Social

• I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Function
  • Prisons
  • Abolish