Kellie Carter Jackson
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May 2025
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“Gun rights mattered, but protection attended to the whole body, the whole person. True liberation makes guns obsolete because when everyone is cared for there is no need to conquer, and certainly there is no need to hoard.”
― We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
― We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
“Nearly every African American could teach a master class in refusing the terms in our degradation.”
― We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
― We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
“Ordinary people without political, economic, or social power have always found empowerment in defending their lives and the lives of others. Collective protection is powerful. It not only saved lives, but compelled people to reckon with the reasons for needing it. ... The answers should haunt us. Protection was a constant response to white supremacy. White power had become synonymous with violence.”
― We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
― We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
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Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory