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.

Angela Davis

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Topic

Prison

Author

Angela Davis

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1974 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Black activist Activist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Davis, Angela. Angela Davis: An Autobiography. Random House, 1974, ch. 1.

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Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.

Midge Decter

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Midge Decter
Language
English
Time
1972 1970s 20th century
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Citation

Decter, Midge. The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation. Coward McCann & Geoghegan, 1972, pt. 2, ch. 2.