"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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"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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"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression."

E.A. Bucchianeri, American Author

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"There is but one blasphemy and that is injustice."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"If there were any justice in the world people would be able to fly over pigeons for a change."

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"It is injustice to determine the brutality of an action because of the victim or the criminal."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"Justice is blind, but judges have eyes."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

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"Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste--- and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you."

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Explore more quotes by Angela Davis

"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."

Death

"As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression."

Government

"What this country needs is more unemployed politicians."

Nation

"That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a status that involves work in alternative economies and increasing numbers of people who are incarcerated."

Work

"I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities."

Awareness

"Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today."

Leadership

"Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been."

Time

"Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital."

Labor

"You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now."

Leadership

"To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women."

Man