"When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person whoâ€™s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa."

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Source : "The Political Monologue of the Year: Angela Davis", www.indiewire.com. November 3, 2011.

Angela Davis

#Country Quotes #Mean Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him.”
“But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North")”
“Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.”
“Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is.”
“If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You can start over any moment you choose.”
“There is this cliche of, "Oh, your professional life is fine, but your romantic life isn't." But, that's also really true of me and all my friends. You don't want to not do something that's relatable simply because you're worried that it might be cliche.”
“I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened.”
“Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall; we will free ourselves by the aid of that large and respectable class of the community - the men of no property.”

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