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“I don't understand all the fuss. If any creature is in danger, you save it, human or animal.”
― The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
― The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
“Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“Mass imprisonment generates profits as it devours social wealth, and thus it tends to reproduce the very conditions that lead people to prison. There are thus real and often quite complicated connections between the deindustrialization of the economy—a process that reached its peak during the 1980s—and the rise of mass imprisonment, which also began to spiral during the Reagan-Bush era.”
― Are Prisons Obsolete?
― Are Prisons Obsolete?
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
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“In many ways you can say that the prison serves as an institution that consolidates the state’s inability and refusal to address the most pressing social problems of this era.”
― Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
― Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
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