You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
5.08k reviews for:
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Y. Davis
4.46 AVERAGE
5.08k reviews for:
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Y. Davis
4.46 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
informative
inspiring
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
informative
reflective
Content Warnings
Moderate: Racism, Police brutality
Minor: Genocide, Gun violence, Sexual violence
challenging
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
hopeful
informative
fast-paced
"The powerful have sent a clear message: obey, and if you seek collective liberation, then you will be collectively punished. In the case of Europe, it's the violence of austerity and borders where migrant lives are neglected, allowed to drown in sea buffer zones."
"It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of herouc individuals in order for people today to recognize their potential agency as a part of an ever-expanding community of struggle."
"questions about the validity of violence should have been directed to those institutions that held and continue to hold a monopoly on violence: the police, the prisons, the military. [...] the Western media are always asking, as a precondition, that Palestinians stop the violence. How would you explain the popularity of this narrative that the oppressed have to ensure the safety of the opressors? [...] The important issues in the Palestinian struggle for freedom and self-determination are minimized and rendered invisible by those who try to equate Palestinian resistance to Israeli apartheid with terrorism."
"The problem is that it is often assumed that the erradication of legal apparatus is equivalent to the abolition of racism. But racism persists in a framework that is far more expansive, far vaster than the legal framwork."
"As private prison companies have long recognized, the most profitable secor of the prison-industrial complex is immigrant detention and deportation. [...] Palestinians have been transformed into immigrants against their will, indeed into undocumented immigrants on their own ancestral lands. [...] G4S's modus operandi is indicative of two of the most worrying aspects of neoliberal capitalism and israeli apartheid: the ideology of "security" and the increasing privatization of what have been traditionally state run sectors. Security, in this context, does not imply security for everyone, but rather, when one looks at the major clients of G4S security (banks, governements, corporations) it becomes evident that when G4S says it is "Securing your World" as the company slogan goes, it is referring to a world of exploitation, repression, ocuppation and racism."
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"Education has thoroughly become a commodity. It has been so thoroughly commoditised that many people don't even know how to understand the very process of acquiring knowledge because it is subordinated to the future capacity to make money."
"in the United States we are at such a disadvantage because we do not know how to talk about the genocide inflicted on indidenous people. We do not know how to talk about slavery. Otherwise it would not have been assumed that simply because of the election of one Black man to the presidency we would leap forward into a postracial era. We do not acknowledge that we all live on colonized land. And in the meaninte, Native Americans live in impoverished conditions on reservations. They have extremelly high incerceration rate - as a matter of facr, per capita the highest - and they suffer disporportionately from such diseases as alcoholism and diabetes."
"Feminist approaches urge us to develop understandings of social relations, whose connections are often initially only intuited. Everyone is familiar with the slogan "The personal is political" - not only that what we experience on a personal level has profound political implications, but that ourinterior lives, our emotional lives are very much informed by ideology. [...] What we often assume belongs most intimately to ourselves and to our emotional life has been produced elsewhere and has been recruited to do the work of racism and repression."
"Intimate violence is not unconnected to state violence. Where do prepertators of intimate violence learn how to engage in the practices of violence? Who teaches them that violence is okay? [...] Racist and sexual violence are practices that are not only tolerated by explicitly - or if not explicitly, then implicitly - encouraged."
"Oftentimes, people argue that in these more recent movements, there were no leaders, there was no manifesto, no agenda, no demand, so therefore the movements failed. [...] There is a difference between outcome and impact. Many people assume that because the encampments are gone and nothing tangible was produced, that there was no outcome. But when we think about the impact of these imaginative and innovative actions and these moments where people learned how to be together without the scaffolding of the state, when they learned to solve problems without succumbing to the impulse of calling the police, that should serve as a true inspiration for the work that we will do in the future to build these transnational solidarities. Don't we want to be able to imagine a the expansion of freedom and justice in the world? [...]
If this is the case, we will have to do something quite extraordinary: We will have to go to great lengths. We cannot go on as usual. We cannot pivot the center. We cannot be moderate. We will have to be willing to stand up and say no with our combined spirits, our collective intellects, and our many bodies."
informative
fast-paced
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
informative
inspiring
fast-paced