Poor People, People Of Color - Especially

You Have To Act As If It Were Possible To Radically Transform The World. And You Have To Do It All The Time.

Prisons Do Not Disappear Social Problems, They Disappear Human Beings. Homelessness, Unemployment, Drug Addiction, Mental Illness, And Illiteracy Are Only A Few Of The Problems That Disappear From Public View When The Human Beings Contending With Them Are Relegated To Cages.

I Decided To Teach Because I Think That Any Person Who Studies Philosophy Has To Be Involved Actively.

The Campaign Against The Death Penalty Has Been - While A Powerful Campaign, Its Participants Have Been Those Who Attend All Of The Vigils, A Relatively Small Number Of People.

Because It Would Be Too Agonizing To Cope With The Possibility That Anyone, Including Our­ Selves, Could Become A Prisoner, We Tend To Think Of The Prison As Disconnected From Our Own Lives. This Is Even True For Some Of Us, Women As Well As Men, Who Have Already Experienced Imprisonment.