"freedom is a place. That it’s not like a destination, it’s the place that we make."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Educators from the United StatesWomen academics from the United StatesWomen born in the 1950s20th-century African-American womenPrison reform activists
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ruth_Wilson_Gilmore
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
17 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Ruth Wilson Gilmore →
Related Quotes
"What I find the most exciting about being a geographer is thinking about how we make the world and make the world and…"
"What prison is and unfreedom is, is the extraction of time."
"the extraction of time from people who are detained, captured, disappeared, incarcerated is the annihilation of space…"
"what spurred and motivated a lot of people to very good organizing, starting with Bob Bullard’s Dumping in Dixie expo…"
"I learned as a child that despair is a luxury I just don’t have a right to."
"the relationship between large-scale capitalist activity and the forces of organized violence have been intimate for …"
"The only way that inviolability has maintained its force overtime has been through the forces of organized violence s…"
"the economic sanctions and embargoes are no less expressions of organized violence that result in premature death tha…"
"I continue to think that it is an unfortunate fact of everyday consciousness in the U.S. because of its racism and it…"
"There are all kinds of reasons to complain. Fine. That’s true of anything that we set ourselves out to do. We can com…"