Abolition Quote by Shira Hassan Download Open image ““Prison abolition is more than a politic, it’s a daily practice.”” — Shira Hassan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abolition Politics Praxis Prison-abolition
“[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 Copy Share Image
“Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?” — Ruthy Alon Copy Share Image
“The current social organization is a sophisticated lie and invisible prison without bars.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Under a goverment which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“The paradigm is a terrible prison.” — not using any f Bertrand Piccard. 2015 Bertrand Piccard flew with a solar-airplane around the world Copy Share Image
“Nothing about the daily workings of the prison system focuses its inhabitants’ attention on what life back on the outside, as a free citizen, will be like. The life of the institution dominates everything. This is one of the awful truths of incarceration, the fact that the horror and the struggle and the interest of your immediate life behind prison… — Piper Kerman Copy Share
“One of the most productive ways a government can spend money on the people is by building more prisons. That’s what makes the US… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Prison education is a concept whose time has come. It is time to stop studying the issue and stop discoursing. It is time to… — Christopher Zoukis Copy Share Image
“You will find that most prisons are forged in someone’s own mind. And they invariably possess the key to their release if they could… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No politician with half his senses, which a majority of politicians have, is likely to vote for its abolition, however. As a class, mothers are tender and loving, but as a voting bloc they would not hesitate… — Russell Baker Copy Share
Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political and social coercive institutions within society. In place of the present capitalistic economic order Anarchists would have a free association of all productive forces based upon co-operative labour, which would have as its sole purpose the… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share
Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition. — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share
It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We invite people working for peace to span generations and national boundaries, and gather together to communicate. Let us firmly join hands and foster… — Iccho Itoh Copy Share Image
Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself, the world has had proofs, and more, perhaps, than it has approved. I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
On this International Day for the Abolition of Slavery let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all men, women and children. And let us… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the freedom and equality of the individual in a free and open society. Marxism expects this society to result from the abolition of private profit. Capitalism expects the free and equal society to result from the enthronement of private… — Peter Drucker Copy Share
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for… — George Washington Copy Share Image
As a long-termist, I acknowledge there are more pressing causes than the abolition of private property. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image