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(4,304 posts)I saw someone else with a sign saying the same thing.
SamKnause
(14,891 posts)NightWatcher
(39,376 posts)It's another tool of oppression that needs to be destroyed.
Rage Against that Machine!!!
Wounded Bear
(64,300 posts)It also asks for the "courage to change the things I can" in line two.
That's where this lady is at, as am I. Hopefully enough people will coalesce, get moving, and vote when it counts.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)better.
Give me the power to the change the things I can change
Accept the things I cannot change
The intelligence to tknow the difference
And the wisdom to hide the bodies of everyone I had to kill that pissed me off
IronLionZion
(51,218 posts)God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)The wisdom part makes all the difference.
IronLionZion
(51,218 posts)we can defeat this buffoon
Wounded Bear
(64,300 posts)Bullies are generally cowards.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Wounded Bear
(64,300 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)I hope it was an oversight, and not hesitation at mentioning Angela Davis's name.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)Wikiquotes is unable to find a definitive attribution. It may be older than Davis.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Angela_Davis
All the same, excellent statement of intent regardless of who originated it.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,189 posts)Solly Mack
(96,930 posts)Never been a fan of that other saying.
Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)The conservative woman adapts herself to the world; the nasty woman persists in trying to adapt the world to herself. Therefore all progress depends on the nasty woman.

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