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.”     ~ 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 .       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.