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“There are many layers of fear associated with this abandonment: fear of what would happen if the system no longer managed our lives, fear of being devoured by the system ourselves, fear that we cannot win, and perhaps most dauntingly, the fear that we cannot do any better than this, that our hopes to the contrary are the utopian dreams of childish idealists.”
― Mariame Kaba, Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

“When state actors refer to “peace,” they are really talking about order. And when they refer to “peaceful protest,” they are talking about cooperative protest that obediently stays within the lines drawn by the state.”
― Kelly Hayes, Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

“Such is the perversion of “violence” under imperial and colonial rule: the maintenance of state-sanctioned violence is considered peaceful, while the disruption of those death-making processes is deemed violent.”
― Kelly Hayes, Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

“If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because “violence” is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo.”
― Kelly Hayes, Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care