Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment – in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row....
When I go back to family reunions everybody goes, ‘Hey cousin! Hey Auntie!’ And I’m like, ‘Okay I don’t know you, I have no idea who you are.’ I am auntie and cousin for so many and even the ones in prison call me collect. And...
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline. — Michel Foucault Tags: #Work, #Discipline, #Prison, #MichelFoucault, #French,...
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. — Bertrand Russell Tags: #Prison, #Tyranny, #Opinion, #BertrandRussell,...
Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in. — Louise L. Hay Tags: #Prison, #Lets, #LouiseLHay, #American, #AuthorMini who’s who: Louise L. Hay : American...