Vivian

“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

“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

“White antislavery abolitionists such as John Brown and William Lloyd Garrison were represented in the dominant media of the period as extremists and fanatics. When Frederick Douglass embarked on his career as an antislavery orator, white people—even those who were passionate abolitionists—refused to believe that a black slave could display such intelligence.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

“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