Abolishing the Police Quotes

“Abolition is not simply about getting rid of the prisons, police or systems of surveillance and punishment; it is about what we build in their place.”
― Sarah Lamble, Abolishing the Police

“The violence of the imperial project is not a mere historical curiosity, nor did it only take place in a 'distant land'; it shaped and continues to shape the technologies of British state violence today.”
― Tanzil Chowdhury, Abolishing the Police

“We use the law though we are terrified of it, contemptuous of its Janus face. We ask the police for what we need, hoping they will not kill us before we have finished stating our claims.”
― Eddie Bruce-Jones, Abolishing the Police