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“Instead of asking whether anyone should be locked up or go free, why don’t we think about why we solve problems by repeating the kind of behavior that brought us the problem in the first place?”
― Ruth Wilson Gilmore

“White supremacy does not thrive in spite of the menacing infrastructure of US criminalization and militarism—it thrives because of it.”
― Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

“The lessons are clear: changing white hearts or training more cops won’t do. To put out the fire this time requires dismantling the entire state and corporate machinery of violence.”
― Robin D.G. Kelley

“There is not a single era in United States history in which the police were not a force of violence against Black people.”
― Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice