I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept. — 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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The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.

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Past struggles cannot correct current injustices. — 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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You can not escape a prison if you do not know you're in one.

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

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When children attend schools that place a greater value in discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prisons. — Angela Davis

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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

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If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

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