"Law reforms in the US, ostensibly enacted to prohibit racism, have proven ineffective because they focus on bad intentions of individuals and fail to comprehend population-level conditions."

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

Dean Spade

#Law Quotes #Racism Quotes #Focus Quotes

“Being a professional ... is making fewer mistakes than others, as few as possible.”
“A good deed is a good deed.”

Source : "Interview: 'The Blind Side' Director John Lee Hancock". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. March 19, 2010.
“Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.”
“Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.”
“There are no limitations, unless you create them yourselves. Anything is possible. You are only limited by your own imagination.”
“The Law waits for you to stumble on a mode of being, a soul different from the FDA-approved purple-stamped standard dead meat - & as soon as you begin to act in harmony with nature the Law garottes & strangles you - so don't play the blessed liberal middleclass martyr - accept the fact that you're a criminal & be prepared to act like one.”

Source : Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.21, Autonomedia
“Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really good CD.”

Source : Source: www.dead-frog.com
“A rigorous doctrine of imputation is not only limiting but ends up doing a disservice to the nature of grace and justification. It makes the transactions of the gospel basically juridical. In the Roman view, justification and sanctification are a seamless fabric. It is more than a question of God simply seeing us through a legal scrim of Christ's righteousness. Righteousness actually begins to transform us.”

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