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“The systems responsible for our oppression cannot be the same systems responsible for our liberation.”
― Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

“Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the ones you cannot live within.”
― Ruha Benjamin

“how we proceed with repair depends on how we remember”
― Robin D. G. Kelley

“We can’t get seduced by the idea that if only we just rebuild the DNC we’ll be fine. We really have to jump in now to shape the narrative. The starting point—and this is the gift that abolition as an ideology and a practice has given me—is the idea that the system isn’t actually broken. Right? Because then I’m not preoccupied with trying to fix it. That’s not my goal. All I want to do is abolish and end it, therefore the imperatives of what I’m trying to do—the training, the questions, the analysis—all have to be geared towards that, and then this doesn’t force me to run around in circles plugging my fingers in the dyke everywhere as the water is just threatening to overwhelm all of us. Also, this allows me to think of how we can crowd out the current system by building the things that we want to see in the world, that will promote our well-being.”
― Mariame Kaba