“The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?”
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“Este país (Portugal) preocupa-me, este país dói-me. E aflige-me a apatia, aflige-me a indiferença, aflige-me o egoísmo profundo em que esta sociedade vive. De vez em quando, como somos um povo de fogos de palha, ardemos muito, mas queimamos depressa.”
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“When Obama was elected president, a prisoner said “one black man in the White House doesn’t make up for one million black men in the Big House.”
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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.”
― Are Prisons Obsolete?
― Are Prisons Obsolete?
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