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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary’s life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
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Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.
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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
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Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past.
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It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.
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I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
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Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery – did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.
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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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