"Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beingsâ€¦"

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Source : Avery Gordon, Angela Davis (2015). “Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People”, p.54, Routledge

Angela Davis

#Problem Quotes #Prison Quotes #Disappear Quotes

“I don't mind what I play, really.”
“I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.”
“At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislatorâ€™s house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?”

Source : "At What Point Do People Revolt?" by Erick Erickson, www.redstate.com. March 31, 2009.
“The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”
“In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society, to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights; when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property.”
“Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.”
“I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.”

Source : "Karl Rove Calls Out Stupid Journalists Who Believed the Worst About Him". www.newsbusters.org. March 8, 2010.

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