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““[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.””

Angela Y. Davis

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“The majority of people who are in prison are there because society has failed them.”

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“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.”

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“even when police are indicted, we cannot be certain that change is on the agenda. There”

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“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, the real sources of all deadly war in it, are the Capitalists”

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