Radicalized Quotes

“She was forty-five minutes late to work that day, but she had toast for breakfast. Goddamnit.”
― Cory Doctorow, Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment

“They’re kids. If they understood risks, they wouldn’t join uprisings and march in the streets and the world would be a simpler place. Not a better one, of course. But simpler.”
― Cory Doctorow, Radicalized

“You’re also not white. You ever hear those heritage-not-hate types, that myth that the Irish were the first slaves in America? They’re an interesting bunch. They’re so close, you know, so close to understanding that whiteness is a thing that other people choose for you. People are white if whiteness is endowed upon them by the wider whiteness. It starts before birth and carries on after you’re dead. And what whiteness gives, it can take away.”
― Cory Doctorow, Radicalized

“It was so easy for an old normal to make way for a new one, so easy to blot the memories of that old normal. That was a skill that had served her well, but in that bite and its honey, she’d counted the cost for the first time.”
― Cory Doctorow, Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment

“Blowing them up or shooting them wasn’t right, but a world in which the wicked went about their days frightened of retribution was a more just one than a world where the wicked held their heads high.”
― Cory Doctorow, Radicalized

“Per poco Salima non scoppiò a ridere. Se lo faceva lei era un crimine, se lo metteva in vendita un'azienda era un prodotto. Qualsiasi cosa poteva diventare un prodotto.”
― Cory Doctorow, Radicalized

“The second bomber went after a Tennessee Republican state senator who’d voted down the Medicare expansion, despite his campaign promise to make sure that “every Tennessean who wants insurance will get insurance.”
― Cory Doctorow, Radicalized

“cops only find crime where they look for it. If you make every Black person you see turn out their pockets, you will find every knife and every dime-baggie that any Black person carries, but that doesn’t tell you anything about whether Black people are especially prone to carrying knives or drugs, especially when cops make quota by carrying around a little something to plant if need be.”
― Cory Doctorow, Radicalized

“There was a space in the conversation here where Salima would say something positive. Everyone in the room wanted her to say something positive. The conversation had a shape, or maybe a direction, and she could pat it on the back, give it a little push in that direction, and the next stop would be something glad from Paul or Wye or the white guy, and then back to her, push and push and push, until it had picked up enough velocity that no one could stop it.”
― Cory Doctorow, Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment

“They wouldn’t do it. They’re kids. If they understood risks, they wouldn’t join uprisings and march in the streets and the world would be a simpler place. Not a better one, of course. But simpler.”
― Cory Doctorow, Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment

“Boredom was unquestionably the worst part of the end of the world.”
― Cory Doctorow, Radicalized

“It was hard to tell whether things were deteriorating or whether it was just the usual baseline of craziness, made more vivid by the fact that they’d all hunkered down in a fortress to await the collapse of civilization.”
― Cory Doctorow, Radicalized

“Someday, people are going to realize that. Someday, enough white folks, enough rich white folks are going to realize that living in a lawless city where hooligans like you can administer beatings and then get your victims locked up for the crime of complaining about it is no good for them. “But long before then, everyone else is going to wake up to that fact. Brown people. White people. Chinese people and Puerto Ricans and everyone”
― Cory Doctorow, Radicalized

“He had lots of guns, but you can’t shoot germs.”
― Cory Doctorow, Radicalized

“A sense of purpose is a wonderful tonic for anxiety.”
― Cory Doctorow, Radicalized

“Martin tried to shut her down by talking about the intrinsically vulnerable circumstances of farming, and she countered by snappishly reminding them all of the vulnerability of fucking starving to death.”
― Cory Doctorow, Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment

“So I want you to get all your friends to come to my place, tomorrow, after school. Five p.m. Tell them, anyone who doesn’t come is not allowed to jailbreak anything ever again.” He registered surprise. “You mean that if we come, we can still jailbreak?” She smiled and met Nadifa’s eye. “Oh yes, my boy. We’re not going to stop breaking the rules. We’re just going to be smart about it.”
― Cory Doctorow, Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment