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Where did Angela Davis say "radical simply means grasping things at the root?"

To start off, if this is the wrong place, please let me know where the right place and I am aware that this is a rewording of an earlier Marx quote. With that out of the way, I am trying to cite the place where this quote started but I am having a hell of a time finding it. It doesn't help that it appears on a million random quote sites without any attribution. Can anyone let me know a place where Davis wrote these words? Thanks in advance!
gpt
It's in her book *Women, Culture, & Politics*. The quote is from her address "Let Us All Rise Together: Radical Perspectives on Empowerment for Afro-American Women:"

> In the aftermath of the Reagan era, it should be clear that there are forces in our society that reap enormous benefits from the persistent, deepening oppression of women. Members of the Reagan administration include advocates for the most racist, antiworking class, and sexist circles of contemporary monopoly capitalism. These corporations continue to prop up apartheid in South Africa and to profit from the spiraling arms race while they propose the most vulgar and irrational forms of anti-Sovietism—invoking, for example, the “evil empire” image popularized by Ronald Reagan—as justifications for their omnicidal ventures. If we are not afraid to adopt a revolutionary stance—if, indeed, we wish to be radical in our quest for change—then we must get to the root of our oppression. **After all, radical simply means “grasping things at the root.”** Our agenda for women’s empowerment must thus be unequivocal in our challenge to monopoly capitalism as a major obstacle to the achievement of equality.