“The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.”

Anyway I don’t think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.

Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

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.

Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

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.

The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

History always seems to repeat itself.

Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

Many people today attempt to draw differences between communism and socialism – there are none.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.