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Book cover for Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
Aristotle wondered why the great poets, philosophers, artists, and politicians often have melancholic personalities.
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Angela Y. Davis
“trans people of color constitute the group most likely to be arrested and imprisoned. Racism provides the fuel for maintenance, reproduction, and expansion of the prison-industrial complex.”
Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis
“As private prison companies have long recognized, the most profitable sector of the prison-industrial complex is immigrant detention and deportation.”
Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis
“The turn toward increased repression in a prison system, distinguished from the beginning of its history by its repressive regimes, caused some journalists, public intellectuals, and progressive agencies to oppose the growing reliance on prisons to solve social problems that are actually exacerbated by mass incarceration.”
Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

Susan Cain
“If we don’t transform our sorrows and longings, we can end up inflicting them on others via abuse, domination, neglect.”
Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

Angela Y. Davis
“Before Palestinians are even arrested, they are already in prison.”
Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

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