“Abolition is also about grappling with defending the humanity of people who you are scared of.”— Olivia Gatwood, podcasts.apple.com
“The police were a placebo. Calling them felt like something, as the legal scholar Michelle Alexander explains, and something feels like everything when your other option is nothing.”— Derecka Purnell, theatlantic.com
“In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com
“three-fifths of perfect manhood would be a high average even among white men”— James Russell Lowell, theatlantic.com