...the court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anything I have learned by being in jail, it is that prisons are wrong, simply and unqualifiedly wrong.
Barbara DemingTag: prison abolition jail courts
In my view, it is an error to think about 'alternatives to prison' if what we mean by that is 'electronic bracelets,' through which people are subject to computer-monitored house arrest, or granting fuller surveillance and disciplinary powers and technologies to other state agencies, such as welfare and mental health, through 'transcarceration' policies...We need to decrease, not increase, the means by which the state, in its multifarious networks of authority, controls human lives and selectively incapacitates people who, no less than others, have the potential to contribute to the improvement of hte human condition.
Karlene FaithTag: prison abolition transcarceration
If he's a poet, why's he in jail?" demanded a suspicious voice.
Madam Chairwoman shrugged velvet shoulders.
"Perhaps he writes free verse," she suggested cunningly.
A stir of approval answered her. Mice are all for people being free, so that they too can be freed form their eternal task of cheering prisoners--so that they can stay snug at home, nibbling the family cheese, instead of sleeping out in damp straw on a diet of stale bread.
Tag: prison abolition prison-abolition
Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever. It was heard in every sound and seen in every thing. It was very present to torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.
Frederick DouglassTag: inspirational freedom freedom-of-thought freedom-of-speech abolition freedom-of-expression beauty-in-literature
...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave
David MitchellHow prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.
Wendell PhillipsTag: memory immortality slavery abolition
Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue.
Shannon CelebiTag: flowers slavery racism race-relations abolition abolitionist pretty-girls pretty-girl
She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white.
Shannon CelebiTag: slavery race racism race-relations abolition white-people colored race-america
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