I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
Kerangkeng dan penjara dirancang untuk menghancurkan manusia, untuk mengubah populasi menjadi spesimen di kebun binatang - patuh kepada penjaga kita, tetapi berbahaya satu sama lain.
Kita hidup dalam masyarakat dengan kelupaan yang dipaksakan, masyarakat yang bergantung pada amnesia publik.
But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
Anda tidak dapat mengkritik orang karena ingin memiliki kehidupan yang layak atau ingin hidup dengan sopan.
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.
I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.
Yang dibutuhakan negara ini adalah para politisi yang menganggur.
Kami tahu jalan menuju kemerdekaan selalu diikuti oleh kematian.
Saya memutuskan untuk mengajar karena saya pikir setiap orang yang mempelajari filsafat harus dilibatkan secara aktif.
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Saya pikir pentingnya melakukan pekerjaan aktivis justru karena hal itu memungkinkan Anda untuk memberi kembali dan menganggap diri Anda bukan sebagai individu tunggal yang mungkin telah mencapai apa pun, tetapi menjadi bagian dari gerakan sejarah yang berkelanjutan.
First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.