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“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.”
― Angela Davis

“What need does the earth have of us?”
― Pope Francis, Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home

“Adding social structural analysis to medical and public health education would move toward a more realistic and balanced version of the biopsychosocial model already explicitly claimed in contemporary health-professional training. More important, this would provide future physicians and public health professionals with the lenses to recognize the societal critiques available in sicknesses and their distributions. With such an awareness of the structurally violent social context of disease, health professionals could move effectively toward acknowledging, treating, and preventing suffering.”
― Seth Holmes, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
― Angela Y. Davis