We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands..searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living..for the integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences.. Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it.- Commencement Speech, Wellesley 1969 . Hillary Rodham Clinton
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By saying that we live in a world that none of us understand, Angela Davis is saying that we are not able to accurately predict how we will react to any given situation. We will never know what we will do if we find ourselves in a situation we did not expect. We will never know what our reactions will be if we get into a fight, or get stuck in traffic, or if someone gives us an unexpected compliment. Aggravatingly for Angela Davis, she has said that she has discovered that "we are quite capable of taking ourselves beyond the limits of sanity and not knowing it," and that she "wouldn't want to live without fear," and yet her life speaks to her about how ridiculous this is.

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