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If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance QUOTES

If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance QUOTES

1 " Yes, I am a Communist. And I will not take the fifth amendment against self-incrimination, because my political beliefs do not incriminate me, they incriminate the Nixons, Agnews, and Reagans. "

― Angela Y. Davis , If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance

2 " The conservative, who does not dispute the validity of revolutions deeply buried in history, invokes visions of impending anarchy in order to legitimize his demand for absolute obedience. Law and order, with the major emphasis on order, is his watchword. The liberal articulates his sensitiveness to certain of society's intolerable details, but will almost never prescribe methods of resistance which exceed the limits of legality - redress through electoral channels is the liberal's panacea. "

― Angela Y. Davis , If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance

3 " There is a distinct and qualitative difference between one breaking a law for one’s own individual self-interest and violating it in the interests of a class or a people whose oppression is expressed either directly or indirectly through that particular law. The former might be called a criminal (though in many instances he is a victim), but the latter, as a reformist or revolutionary, is interested in universal social change. Captured, he or she is a political prisoner. "

― Angela Y. Davis , If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance

4 " The very institutions which condemned Nat Turner and reduced his struggle for freedom to a simple criminal case of murder, owed their existence to the decision, made a half century earlier, to take up arms against the British oppressor. "

― Angela Y. Davis , If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance

5 " We should seek out all the doors which still remain ajar, however slight the opening might be. "

― Angela Y. Davis , If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance