Grasping Quote by Angela Davis Download Open image “Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'” — Angela Davis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grasping Radical
The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“By “radical” I mean something more than that they aimed to change the order of society in a fundamental way or that they searched… — Matthew Stewart Copy Share Image
I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress. — John Templeton Copy Share Image
I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
When most people see the word "radical," they think that it must refer to something left wing. Some people also may think of it… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
“To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
Even when I can play Europe's most precious keyboard, to have to listen to people who don't understand, or do not want to understand,… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are… — Polybius Copy Share Image
Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
In the early days the Cubism' method of grasping an object was to go round and round it. The Futurists declared that one had… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is unique and… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image