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“You may live in a small town, but that doesn't mean you have to get afflicted with one of the deadliest STD's - small town disease, which symptoms are repetitive droid-like behavior and a lack and shortage mentality”

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“There are three methods of dealing with offenders against society once they are apprehended: retribution, deterrence, and rehabilitation. Prison officials and men generally lay claim more or less to advocating all three. At present the public thinks that offenders should be punished. There are many different reasons why this is so, among them the belief that the average criminal responds to nothing but fear and penalties. Yet there is some real evidence that only through the very opposite of fear and punishment--intelligent good will--can men be reached and challenged and changes brought about.”

“When a loved one is incarcerated, it's like an atom bomb falls on them, obliterating everything in an instant. Their freedom, their movement, their livelihood, gone. But the bomb's shock waves spread out and envelop close family and friends too. The prison industrial complex eats incarcerated people as the main course but also feasts on their relatives, relationships, and communities. Its appetite is voracious.”

“It’s often oppressed trauma survivors who have led the most successful social justice movements in American history, survivors who are commonly moved by anger, resentment, and rage – not forgiveness – toward those who are responsible for this oppression and trauma,”

“Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had." [Commencement Speech; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999]”

“Irgendwann fiel zum ersten Mal das scheinheilige Wort vom Totalitarismus, das einem nicht nur half, dem gefährlichen Begriff Faschismus, an dem man ja ausgiebig beteiligt gewesen war, aus dem Wege zu gehen, sondern auch jenes Gesellschaftssystem, das der Todfeind des Faschismus gewesen war, bei seinem Zusammenbruch die Hauptrolle gespielt und im Kampf die schwersten Opfer gebracht hatte, eben diesem Faschismus an die Seite zu rücken, ja, man hatte, wenn man es recht bedachte, bereits an der Spitze seiner SS-Panzergrenadiere die Hälfte des Totalitarismus bekämpft und durfte sich so mit Fug und Recht einen Freiheitskämpfer nennen.”

“In diesen »Randglossen zum Programm der deutschen Arbeiterpartei« (so Marx' eigentlicher Titel dieser Schrift) spricht er von einer kommunistischen Gesellschaft, von einer Gesellschaft, in der das Privateigentum abgeschafft ist. Das meint nicht den persönlichen Besitz von geliebten Dingen, sondern das Eigentum an Produktionsmitteln in einer Produktionsweise, in der unabhängig voneinander betriebene und miteinander konkurrierende Privatarbeiten zur maß- und endlosen Kapitalvermehrung um ihrer selbst Willen und damit zur Produktivitätssteigerung gezwungen sind.”