Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't..

Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are….

We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on bl….

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems..

It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembere….

I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist dem….

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept..

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians..

As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the Nation….

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively..

I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general..

I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communiti….

We are never assured of justice without a fight..

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death..

When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no….

I don't know whether the movement crashed as a result of the overwhelming character of the institutions we set out to change. I think repression had ….

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy..

I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected in….

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and o….

Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that t….