You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept. — Angela Davis

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Leadership does not have to be individualistic… it can be collective. — Angela Davis

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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve? — Angela Davis

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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. — Angela Davis

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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible. — Angela Davis

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Freedom can’t be contained within a paradigm that is individualistic. One cannot be free alone: freedom is collective. Freedom is about transforming conditions so that communities can live in more habitable conditions. — Angela Davis

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Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. — Angela Davis

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I think the quest for civil rights for migrants and refugees is one of the most important issues in the world right now. — Angela Davis

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We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. — Angela Davis

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