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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

Book by Angela Y. Davis · 4 quotes · Antiracism, Abolition, Feminism

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“The very existence of the prison forecloses the kinds of discussions that we need in order to imagine the possibility of eradicating these behaviors. Just send them to prison. Just keep on sending them to prison. Then of course, in prison they find themselves within a violent institution that reproduces violence.”

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“It is a mistake to assume that all we have to do is guarantee the prosecution of the cop who killed Michael Brown. The major challenge of this period is to infuse a consciousness of the structural character of state violence into the movements that spontaneously arise.”

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