Keith Runyan

“I want us to ask who benefits from our hopelessness, and to deny our oppressors the satisfaction of getting to see our pain. I want them to wonder how we foment such consistent and deep solidarity and unlearning. I want our infiltrators to be astounded into their own transformations, having failed to tear us apart.”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice

“While all harms are not equal, even the most heinous require a way home.”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice

“Accountability isn’t punishment, though it is frequently wielded as such.”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice

“destroying a person doesn’t destroy all of the systems that allow harmful people to do harm”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice