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“The systems responsible for our oppression cannot be the same systems responsible for our liberation.”
― Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
― Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
“Abolition, I have learned, is a bigger idea than firing cops and closing prisons; it includes eliminating the reasons people think they need cops and prisons in the first place.”
― Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
― Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
“Most Black people I know trust the police—they trust them to be exactly what they have always been: violent.”
― Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
― Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
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