"Since felons are subsequently disfranchised, the US now has 1.75 million people disqualified from voting because of their criminality- 1.4 million black men have forfeited their right to vote, almost 15 per cent of the black male population."

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Source : Jeremy Seabrook (2003). “The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty”, p.14, Verso

Jeremy Seabrook

#Men Quotes #People Quotes #Voting Quotes

“Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its own sake, as with children's play, or as manifestation of the end or goal of work, as in "playing" chess or the piano. Play in this sense, then, is the fulfillment of work, the exhibition of what the work has been done for.”
“Now, as I move through my fifties, I can be professional and domestic, creative and intellectual, patient and urgent. I have learned that we should never settle for someone else's definition of who we can be. Growing to this age, I realize, is kind of like feeling your voice deepen. It's still your voice, but it has more substance, and it sounds like it knows its own origins.”
“That faith which is required of us is then perfect when it produces in us a fiduciary assent to whatever the Gospel has revealed.”
“People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest.”
“Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.”

Source : "A Watchful State" by Jeffrey Rosen, www.nytimes.com. October 7, 2001.
“I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women”
“Faith is nothing else than trust in the divine mercy promised in Christ.”
“Everywhere--all over Africa and South America . . . you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul. . . . This is the prison this planet is being turned into.”

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