{"quotes":[{"text":"Isolation of catastrophic experiences. Dissociation may function to seal off overwhelming trauma into a compartmentalized area of conscious until the person is better able to integrate it into mainstream consciousness. The function of dissociation is particularly common in survivors of combat, political torture, or natural or transportation disasters.","author":"Marlene Steinberg","tags":["amnesia","catastrophe","combat","complex-trauma","concentration-camp-survivor","concentration-camps","consciousness","dissociated","dissociation","dissociative","memory","political-prisoners","psychology","soldiers","survivor","torture","trauma","trauma-survivors"],"id":2764,"author_id":"Marlene+Steinberg"},{"text":"There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X’s} spirit that they became warriors and the powers that be understood them as warriors. They knew that a lot of these other middle-class [black] leaders were not warriors; they were professionals; they were careerists. But these warriors had callings, and they have paid an incalculable and immeasurable price in those cells.","author":"Cornel West","tags":["african-american-history","african-american-men","african-americans","black-history-month","black-leadership","black-liberation-movement","black-middle-class","black-prophets","black-revolutionaries","careerists","conscientious-objection","freedom-fighters","industrial-prison-complex","leadership","malcolm-x","martyrs","mass-incarceration","political-advocacy","political-philosophy","political-prisoners","prison-reform","racial-discrimination","racism","warriors"],"id":346879,"author_id":"Cornel+West"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}