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We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy) QUOTES

We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy) QUOTES

1 " Movements tend to become the practice ground for what we are healing towards, co-creating. Movements are responsible for embodying what we are inviting our people into. We need the people within our movements, all socialized into and by unjust systems, to be on liberators paths. Not already free, but practicing freedom every day. Not already beyond harm, but accountable for doing our individual and internal work to end harm and engage in generative conflict, which includes actively working to gain awareness of the ways we can and have harmed each other, where we have significant political differences, and where we can end cycles of harm and unprincipled struggles in ourselves and our communities. "

― adrienne maree brown , We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy)

2 " I will not be perfect, I will keep learning. I will also not be silent, I will keep learning. "

― adrienne maree brown , We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy)

3 " I have learned the difference between intolerable feelings and intolerable conditions. "

― adrienne maree brown , We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy)

4 " If I can see the ways I am perpetuating systemic oppressions, if I can see where I learned the behavior and how hard it is to unlearn it, I start to have more humility as I see the messiness of the communities I am part of, the world I live in. "

― adrienne maree brown , We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy)