# Quote — Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is A Constant Struggle

> I also think it's important for us to think forward and to imagine future history in a way that is not restrained by our own lifetimes. Oftentimes people say, well, if it takes that long, I'll be dead. So what? Everybody dies, right? And if people who were involved in the struggle against slavery-I'm thinking about people like Frederick Douglass, or Ida B. Wells in the struggle against lynching if they had that very narrow individualistic sense of their own contributions, where would we be today? And so we have to learn how to imagine the future in terms that are not restricted to our own lifetimes.

- Author: [Angela Y. Davis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/angela-y-davis.md)
- Book: [Freedom Is A Constant Struggle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/angela-y-davis/freedom-is-a-constant-struggle.md)
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