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“Release the shame you feel when resting. It does not belong to you.”
― Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
― Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
“The concept of laziness is a tool of the oppressor.”
― Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
― Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
“Take up space. Be risky in your observations. Be a maroon. Decide you ain’t ever going back to enslavement. Take a nap to receive a Word from your Ancestors. Be subversive. Embrace radical love that is outside the confines of tradition. Be suspicious of everything they taught you. Carry a research notebook. Be curious. Resist. Rest.”
― Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
― Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
“Capitalism was created on plantations. The roots of it are violence and theft.”
― Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
― Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
“How can we imagine a world without police if we are unable to imagine a world that includes rest for all? How can we build systems of care if we don’t even care for our own bodies and the bodies of others?”
― Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
― Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
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