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Angela Davis Quotes

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 26, 1944

Topics

Social Function Prisons Suggesting

I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades.

Family Fun College Wait Small Never

Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.

Ideas Seriously Hard Right Take Far

I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog, we would get beat up in the street, I had my bike stolen. There was just a lot of real anarchy on the streets and sidewalks.

Car Bike Broken Remember House Real

My day job keeps me grounded. When I show up to work, I'm not some star fighter or anything, I'm just Stipe. I'm going to keep working in my hometown as long as I can.

Work Day Job Me Hometown Long

I am not proposing that we bring our oil and auto industries to a screeching halt. There is still time to begin a series of gradual steps toward new transportation and energy policies, livable cities, and more humane, efficient transit systems.

Time I Am Energy Transportation New

I think kid actors may grow up faster, with the responsibility of having to do school work, learn all lines.

Work Responsibility School Think Kid

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

Roger Tory Peterson

Environmental Birds Environment Know

Love him or hate him, no one has been able to figure out Donald Trump.

Love Hate Donald Trump Him Out Been

Most of us who have healthy eyesight are extremely attached to our vision, often without being conscious that we are. We depend heavily on our eyes, and yet we rarely give them a second thought. I, at least, am this way. The physical world is almost hyper-vivid to me.

Rosemary Mahoney

Vision Eyes Me World Thought Way

The nuclear deal with Iran's radical clerics and their military junta is the most dangerous and potentially deadly action that the Obama administration has yet taken.

Action Dangerous Military Radical

The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone - it means being free to have a relationship or not. This can be scary, but it's also very interesting.

Monica Bellucci

Relationship Alone Woman Being Alone

Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement.

Challenge Trying Street Become Most

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