21st Century: Query 151 (Angela Davis)
“I am no
longer accepting the things I cannot change; I am changing the things I can no
longer accept.”
What does this statement reveal about the speaker?
In what way does the statement differ from The Serenity Prayer? Remain the same?
~ Attributed to Angela Davis, an
American political activist, academic, and author.
She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Ideologically a Marxist, Davis was a member of the Communist Party USA until 1991, after which she joined the breakaway Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. She is the author of over ten books on class, feminism, and the U.S. prison system.
She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Ideologically a Marxist, Davis was a member of the Communist Party USA until 1991, after which she joined the breakaway Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. She is the author of over ten books on class, feminism, and the U.S. prison system.
What does this statement reveal about the speaker?
In what way does the statement differ from The Serenity Prayer? Remain the same?
The Serenity Prayer
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.