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“Kings are sad creatures.”
― Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri

“At root, they fail to appreciate that the basic nature of the law and the police, since its earliest origins, is to be a tool for managing inequality and maintaining the status quo. Police reforms that fail to directly address this reality are doomed to reproduce it.”
― Alex Vitale, The End of Policing

“Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“He stood and watched the night push itself into the bar and the light push it back out.”
― David Berman, Actual Air