Anyway I don't think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.
If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night. 
the struggle for an abolitionist democracy is aspiring to create the institutions that will truly allow for a democratic society. What 
Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible. 