We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object - we don’t think about the relations that that object embodies - an….

We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism..

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence..

I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional tran….

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who….

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons..

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil right….

I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the othe….

That's true but I think the contemporary problem that we are facing increasing numbers of black people and other people of color being thrown into a ….

Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I me….

In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent….

I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that g….

You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently..

I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons..

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work..

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty..

I'm thinking about some developments say in the 80s when the anti-apartheid movement began to claim more support and strength within the US. Black tr….

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the countr….

I think we need to insist on a certain responsibility, which people have - particularly those who have made it into the ranks of the middle class bec….

We must always attempt to lift as we climb.

The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more pro….