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“I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name
My name is my own my own my own
and I can’t tell you who the hell set things up like this
but I can tell you that from now on my resistance
my simple and daily and nightly self-determination
may very well cost you your life”
― June Jordan, Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems

“To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.”
― bell hooks, Teaching Community

“Propaganda to enemy forces, called persuasion, proceeded from the assumption of their basic humanity, i.e. that their hearts and minds were equally capable of conscience and patriotism, and that they were capable of repudiating the dehumanized activities which they were pursuing under the direction of imperialism.”
― James and Grace Lee Boggs

“Freedom is not a thing that you get or you gain or you accomplish or you buy. Freedom is essentially a relationship.”
― James and Grace Lee Boggs