"Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'"

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Source : Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Culture & Politics”, p.14, Vintage

Angela Davis

#Mean Quotes #Roots Quotes #Grasping Quotes

“But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.”
“It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms.”
“Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.”
“It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.”
“If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.”
“When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.”
“Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants.”
“I had wanted to come back to Greenwich Village ever since I had left Waverly Place, and since moving to West Eleventh Street, I have never lived anyplace else. I do not want to. That is not because of what the Village is but because of what I have made it, and what I have made it depends on who I am at the time.”

Source : Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, when I was Young”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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