Venus

“The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.”
― Dean Spade

“It's a false premise to say that most monogamous people have chosen monogamy. Most people belong to the religion they were raised in...because that's what's familiar. That's the milieu they grew up in, and, for better or worse, they're just continuing the pattern. Until this traditionalist mindset is shaken loose, you would likely try from reflex to impose notions onto nonmonogamy that are not only untenable in the new context but spel sudden and messy doom even in situations that otherwise could be worked out.”
― Anthony D. Ravenscroft, Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful

“Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“When you begin with the premise "I treat everyone equally," you have already blinkered yourself from seeing where you don't, or can't, or shouldn't. There is no way to treat two people equally, because they are each unique, with respective strengths and weaknesses.”
― Anthony D. Ravenscroft, Polyamory: Roadmaps for the Clueless & Hopeful