Maanu

“Since the rise of global capitalism and related ideologies associated with
neoliberalism, it has become especially important to identify the dangers of
individualism. Progressive struggles—whether they are focused on racism,
repression, poverty, or other issues—are doomed to fail if they do not also
attempt to develop a consciousness of the insidious promotion of capitalist
individualism. Even as Nelson Mandela always insisted that his
accomplishments were collective, always also achieved by the men and women
who were his comrades, the media attempted to sanctify him as a heroic
individual. A similar process has attempted to disassociate Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. from the vast numbers of women and men who constituted the very
heart of the mid-twentieth-century US freedom movement. It is essential to resist
the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals in order for people
today to recognize their potential agency as a part of an ever-expanding
community of struggle.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

“Most of us had been involved for many years in Palestine solidarity work, but we were all thoroughly shocked to discover that the repression associated with Israeli settler colonialism was so evident and so blatant. The Israeli military made no attempt to conceal or even
mitigate the character of the violence they inflicted on the Palestinian people.
Gun-carrying military men and women—many extremely young—were everywhere. The wall, the concrete, the razor wire everywhere conveyed the impression that we were in prison. Before Palestinians are even arrested, they are already in prison. One misstep and one can be arrested and hauled off to prison;
one can be transferred from an open-air prison to a closed prison.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

“While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“There are vast numbers of people behind bars in the
United States—some two and a half million—and imprisonment is increasingly
used as a strategy of deflection of the underlying social problems—racism,
poverty, unemployment, lack of education, and so on. These issues are never
seriously addressed. It is only a matter of time before people begin to realize that the prison is a false solution”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement