Ella Harris

“The democracy which the white world seeks to defend does not exist.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept

“Incarceration does not heal, make us safer, or positively transform individuals, harm, or our society. Quite the contrary. Incarceration destroys humans, families, communities, genera tions, and society. Incarceration makes accountability and repair for harm more difficult to achieve and perpetuates violence. We must create the conditions that bring forth a world where incarceration has no place.”
― Jaimee Swift, We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities

“We want not just protection from violence but the dismantling of the ideologies and institutions that produce, excuse, and perpetuate violence: heteropatriarchal families, prisons, police, militaries, borders, religions, philosophies, and sciences.”
― Soraya Chemaly, All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy

“You cannot have a non-political African American Studies course because its whole invention, its raison d’être came out of political struggle.”
― Robin D.G. Kelley