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“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

“a system that never addresses the why behind a harm never actually contains the harm itself. Cages confine people, not the conditions that facilitated their harms or the mentalities that perpetuate violence.”
― Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

“And police violence is a misnomer. It’s actually redundant because policing is violence. In and of itself.”
― Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

“There is more to be learned from wearing a dress for a day, than there is from wearing a suit for a lifetime.”
― Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions