Keith Runyan

“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

“But lately, as the attacks grow faster and more vicious, I wonder: is this what we’re here for? To cultivate a fear-based adherence to reductive common values? What can this lead to in an imperfect world full of sloppy, complex humans? Is it possible we will call each other out until there’s no one left beside us?”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice

“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