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

Book by Angela Y. Davis · 3 quotes · Antiracism, Abolition, Feminism

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

“Whenever you conceptualize social justice struggles, you will always defeat your own purposes if you cannot imagine the people around whom you are struggling as equal partners. Therefore if, and this is one of the problems with all of the reform movements, if you think of the prisoners simply as the objects of the charity of others, you defeat the very purpose of antiprison work. You are constituting them as an inferior in the process of trying to defend their rights.”

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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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