Sunday, August 7, 2016

Abbie Hoffman Says

"You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." 

 

 

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/abbiehoffm391027.html
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/abbiehoffm391027.html
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/abbiehoffm391027.html

Monday, August 1, 2016

Mass Incarceration of Disabled People

This is a good article about the mass incarceration of disabled people.  I think our society should spend more money on healthcare and less money on building prisons. 

"Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Kristiana Coignard, and Robert Ethan Saylor were all individuals with disabilities whose tragic stories of being killed at the hands of police officers garnered significant recent national media attention."

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/criminal-justice/report/2016/07/18/141447/disabled-behind-bars/