Quote by Angela Davis
My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom. – 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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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women. – Angela Davis

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Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement. – Jeanette Winterson

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Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us. – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom. – Arthur Erickson

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Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I dont think they sit there abstractly hating freedom. – Zbigniew Brzezinski

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