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| 434c633 | In seeking to severely penalize criminals society by putting the criminals away behind safe walls actually provide them with the means of greater strength for future atrocities glorious and otherwise. | humor prison-reform prison | Jack Kerouac | |
| 300c74e | It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence. | humanity darren-hunt post-racial-america racial-profiling demographics-of-united-states eric-garner kajieme-powell killing-of-black-men-in-america michael-brown tamir-rice trayvon-martin troy-anthony-davis mass-incarceration prison-reform human-rights-day race-and-racism-in-america race-relations | Aberjhani | |
| 43e62d8 | There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America's jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X's} spirit that they became warriors and the powers that be understood them as warriors. They knew that a lot of these other middle-class [black] leaders were not warriors; they were professionals; they were careerists. But these warriors had callings, and they have paid an incalculable and immeasurable price in those cells. | racism leadership african-american-men black-leadership black-liberation-movement black-middle-class black-prophets black-revolutionaries careerists conscientious-objection freedom-fighters industrial-prison-complex mass-incarceration political-advocacy political-prisoners prison-reform martyrs african-americans malcolm-x black-history-month racial-discrimination warriors political-philosophy | Cornel West |