Natasha Lennard

Do anything for each other … Fight so hard that we don’t feel as if we’re going to explode all the time

are dealing with “the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice

ite moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice

Insisting on the importance of debate with fascists, they decry violent or confrontational intervention.

Working to create nonhierarchical ways of living, working to undo our own privileges and desires for power

To talk of an aspect’s truth or falsity misses the point, and that is precisely what’s important about these figures. Perception is not just the expression of a subjective experience, but goes beyond the personal

Rioting is not senseless destruction; on the contrary, it is often (even without explicit intention) a deeply political challenge to property and white supremacy

To tell a furious community that their riotous actions are counterproductive patronizes the very groups who know too well that “acceptable channels” of political engagement have failed, again and again, to deliver dignity and justice to black life.

Yet the media consistently attributes the act of turning to violence to people who literally cannot turn from it; whose lives and deaths are organized by it.

empty shows of force unlikely to influence the state