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Book cover for Are Prisons Obsolete? (Open Media Series)
there may be twice as many people suffering from mental illness who are in jails and prisons than there are in all psychiatric hospitals in the United States combined.1
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Angela Y. Davis
“if we say abolish the prison-industrial complex, as we do, we should also say abolish apartheid, and end the occupation of Palestine!”
Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

Angela Y. Davis
“The FBI is attempting to persuade people, it seems to me, who are the grandchildren of Assata’s generation—and mine as well—to turn away from struggles to end police violence, to dismantle the prison-industrial complex, struggles to end violence against women, struggles to end the occupation of Palestine, struggles to defend the rights of immigrants here and abroad.”
Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

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

Angela Y. Davis
“Just as we say “never again” with respect to the fascism that produced the Holocaust, we should also say “never again” with respect to apartheid in South Africa, and in the southern US.”
Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

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

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