Amnesia Quote by Angela Davis Download Open image “We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.” — Angela Davis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amnesia Community Depends Forgetfulness Forgetfulness Society Imposed Forgetfulness Inspirational Love Public Amnesia
“Are all societies doomed to amnesia—or are there communities that have preserved their collective cultural memory? The world, which is the private property of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are. — Meir Kahane Copy Share Image
We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny. — James Carroll Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free. — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Mankind in Amnesia has to do not only with the past, like my other books -- primarily it has to do with the future,… — Immanuel Velikovsky Copy Share Image
It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals,… — Joyce Carol Oates 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
“Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster in the… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“It’s a cool morning, raining out, and you’re a thirty-eight-year-old woman who can’t remember a thing about her life. A strange amnesia, one you… — Hope Nicholson Copy Share Image
I Wish I Can Have Amnesia When It Comes To Some Of My Ex's I've Been With — Thomas Payne Copy Share Image
It would never occur to me to map my research against events in my life, and the recent history of globalization seems to be… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
“Details can change or go missing entirely, particularly in moments of physical peril. A kind of amnesia goes hand in hand with sickness, and… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
& everytime I see her I sees ya, got you runnin' through my mind , jog my memories amnesia — Drake Copy Share Image
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide Copy Share Image
Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.” — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image