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• Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.
• The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no…
• If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.
• We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our…
• A fair trial would have been no trial at all.
• Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary,…
• The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have…
• Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend…
• But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort…
• It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think…
• I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
• Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

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