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“Over cheers and cross-talk, another man’s voice prevailed. “All we want is jobs,” he yelled. “We get jobs, we don’t bother nobody. We don’t get no jobs, we'll tear up Los Angeles, period.”
― At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
― At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
“When nonviolent deviant individuals are labeled as sick, however, the public tends to view them as if they were violent. The community is also likely to restrict them in the same harsh way as those who are violent.”
― Politics of Therapy
― Politics of Therapy
“Writing from bed is a time-honored disabled way of being an activist and a cultural worker. It's one the mainstream doesn't often acknowledge but whose lineage stretches from Frida Kahlo painting in bed to Grace Lee Boggs writing in her wheelchair at age 98.”
― Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
― Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
“I am not a trained historian, but I am, like many people, someone who remembers and fights to remember as an act of both resistance and changing the future.”
― Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
― Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
“The people of New York City have never experienced such fellowship, such awareness of being one, as they did last night in the midst of darkness,' Rabbi Heschel told his class at Union Seminary. 'Indeed, there is a light in the midst of the darkness of this hour. But, alas, most of us have no eyes.”
― At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
― At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
Not Exceeding Ten Miles Square
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