“The process occurs in two stages. The first step is to grant law enforcement officials extraordinary discretion regarding whom to stop, search,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Policing has never been about public safety: its origins are rooted in social control, the denial of people's human rights, securing the… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The danger with Bill C-11 is that it gives the government the ability to use technology as a means of social control. — Leslyn Lewis Copy Share Image
I think that's a major reason. Instead of turning in their own lives to philosophy, religion, love, family life, or nature, they… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
“It is easy for us to delude ourselves into thinking that our notions of the healthy person are unbiased by our particular… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control. — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
“Saying mass incarceration is an abysmal failure makes sense, though, only if one assumes that the criminal justice system is designed to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small,… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state. — Theda Skocpol Copy Share Image
There is a system of racial and social control in communities of color across America. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The very same bourgeois mentality which extols the manufacturing division of labour, the life-long annexation of the worker to a partial operation,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“The most interesting aspects of the story lie between the two extremes of coercion and popularity. It might be instructive to consider… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
“The construct of a new, fictional 'Balkans' [is] a result of linguistic violence beginning with the verb 'to balkanize,' which most of… — Andrej Grubacic Copy Share Image
You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“Something Arabs and Westerners certainly do is what one might have thought someone like Amis, considering the kind of fictional world he… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“For insofar as fear of eternal damnation and the power of excommunication, backed by the coercive power of the state, had become… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The pieces in "Taking Sides" do not agree with each other. That isn't accidental. There are no easy or singular responses or… — Cindy Milstein Copy Share Image
“If the movement that emerges to challenge mass incarceration fails to confront squarely the critical role of race in the basic structure… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The body has been used as a form of social control through the ages and a mature economy can only achieve growth… — Orna Ross Copy Share Image
These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
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