Robin

“They are not talking about a bloodless, planned, goal-oriented revolution, but about a violent, chaotic one. It is here that I part company with them. I am not convinced that an overpopulated, unhappy world in which a umber of nations have the weapons with which to destroy all mankind can tolerate much more violence.”
― Seymour Halleck, 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.”
― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

“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.”
― Seymour Halleck, Politics of Therapy

“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.”
― Taylor Branch, At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68