"We should understand that in the context of the US, where our legal system is based in settler colonialism, capitalism and white supremacy, changing laws will never sufficiently change the conditions of harm and violence our movements seek to transform."

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Source : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

Dean Spade

#Law Quotes #White Quotes #Colonialism Quotes

“It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government”
“In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet, There is a new-made grave today, Built by never a spade nor pick, Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick. There lie many fighting men. Dead in their youthful prime.”

Source : Joyce Kilmer (1918). “Joyce Kilmer”
“People â€” running from unhappiness, hiding in power â€” are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.”
“For standing between Cody and his pain is my obligation, and standing between my uncle and his pain is my rent, but the pain I coax from Bronte is my joy”
“I think that what youâ€™ve got to do is discover the essential truth of the situation, and have a point of view about it.”
“I prefer consider Stromae as a collective project. Stromae is not me. Or at least it is not only me.”
“I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere.”
“Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.”

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