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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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my peoples struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. – Angela Davis

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Politics
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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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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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Death
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Freedom
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people. – John Adams

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All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks. – Michelangelo Antonioni

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Freedom

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that were in a battle between tyranny and freedom – its a series of pendulum swings. – Jon Stewart

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Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other peoples freedom and security. – William F. Buckley, Jr.

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By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, youll become happy if you get a bad one, youll become a philosopher. – Socrates

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. – Eileen Caddy

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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark. – Walter Lippmann

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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. – Ashley Montagu

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