Angela Davis Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. – Angela Davis Break Quotes Convert Quotes Dangerous Quotes Designed Quotes Human Quotes Jails Quotes Keepers Quotes Obedient Quotes Population Quotes Prisons Quotes Specimens Quotes Zoo Quotes Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root.’ I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
Naomi Klein That’s the trick of free market economic theory: it doesn’t just ask you to only be selfish and not care about others. It tells you that by being selfish, you are helping others. And, in fact, by trying to directly help others, you will hurt them. – Naomi Klein
Lee Hyeon-seo We considered the Dear Leader our god. That’s huge. He’s more than our parents. I thought all of the world respected Kim Il Sung. That’s why we were bowing to their pictures. – Lee Hyeon-seo
Ken Liu Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question received wisdom, to challenge ‘facts’ ‘everybody’ knows to be true, and to imagine worlds and characters worthy of our rich historical heritage and our complex selves. – Ken Liu
Frank Gore When I went to high school, my whole neighborhood, they followed me. They wanted to see me be successful. – Frank Gore
Little Richard I’m a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist. – Little Richard
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