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“The systems responsible for our oppression cannot be the same systems responsible for our liberation.”

― Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
tags: abolition, activism, community, freedom, justice, memoir, nonfiction
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