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Quotes from Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin Rashid Johnson — Kevin Rashid Johnson

born 1971 United States

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Empire has manufactured a discontinuity in popular struggle, while maintaining continuity in its own growth and consolidation. One of the empire’s principal tools and weapons has been its prisons.

Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin Rashid Johnson (2010)

When you are poor you don’t have any social respect or social worth because everything is defined in terms of money and how much of it you have. This is what capitalism does. It turns all values into commercial values, even the value of life itself.

Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin Rashid Johnson (2010)

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