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Wilson Gilmore to remind us exactly what abolition is. ‘It is meant to undo the way of thinking and doing things that sees prison and punishment as solutions for all kinds of social, economic, political, behavioral, and interpersonal
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A reference to Ruth Wilson Gilmore's interview regarding prison abolition on "Democracy Now!":https://www.democracynow.org/2020/5/5/ruth_wilson_gilmore_abolition_coronavirus?fbclid=IwAR23491sN4-mePKKcp1EyChRB42LTbs-QpKnuF7WwzF7kPXPAOEk8umLteo
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
― The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
“I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged.”
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“Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.”
― Social Theory and Social Structure
― Social Theory and Social Structure
“I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.”
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