Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.

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

The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political struggles. We need to divest ourselves the kinds of strategies that assume that black unity black political unity is possible.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.