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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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"You do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them."
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"Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror."
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
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"Everyone is supposed to be on equal ground and the equal ground is supposed to be based on qualifications."
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"Sympathy of victims and humanity of us question the stronghold of integrity towards justice."
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"Justice has a right to protest against injustice."
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"Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not."
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"Rape is something very obscene and this act must always be intervened by authorities, so victims will not end up suffering from a post traumatic disorder."
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"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
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"Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
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"Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.""
Change
"The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time."
Time
"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
"But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life."
Life
"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."
Society
"I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general."
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"To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women."
Man
"First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons."
Government
"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."
Politics
"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."
Constitution
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