• Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.

  Angela Davis
  American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author 1944-
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. homelessness
2. unemployment
3. illiteracy
4. contending
5. relegated
6. cages

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Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages. by : Angela Davis

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