Quote by Angela Davis
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely b

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. – Angela Davis

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I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late 40s and early 50s was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival. – Angela Davis

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Learning
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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women. – Angela Davis

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relationship
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You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what Im attempting to do right now. – Angela Davis

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Leadership
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Death
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Somehow, knowing that Alzheimers is coming mocks all ones aspirations – to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for ones accomplishments and hard work – in a way that old familiar death does not. – Jane Smiley

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Death

Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over. – Stevie Nicks

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Death

Life is but a moment, death also is but another. – Robert H. Schuller

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Death

Death is the final wake-up call. – Douglas Horton

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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before. – Johann von Goethe

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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is mans lack of faith in his true Self. – William James

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Im actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s. – Dylan Moran

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famous