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Self-improvement and success often occur together. But that doesn鈥檛 necessarily mean they鈥檙e the same thing.

“When Menachem Begin visited America soon after the creation of the Israeli state in 1948, a letter to the New York Times signed by 28 Jewish liberals and progressives, including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt, denounced him as a 鈥渢errorist, right-wing chauvinist.鈥 His movement, the letter stated, was 鈥渃losely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy, and social appeal to Nazi and Fascist parties. 鈥 Within the Jewish community they have preached an admixture of ultranationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority. Like other Fascist parties they have been used to break strikes, and have themselves pressed for the destruction of free trade unions. In their stead, they have proposed corporate unions on the Italian Fascist model.鈥漑43”
― Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire
― Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire

“Survivors therefore need something from those of us committed to them. If it is true that survivors are a far wider-ranging group of people than we know, if it is true that incarceration does not consistently deliver safety and almost never delivers healing, if it is true that basic things like validation, control, and a coherent narrative are necessary elements for coming through trauma, if it is true that survivors who are given options almost always choose anything other than prison, if it is true that millions of survivors tell us again and again every time they do not call the police that what the criminal justice system has to offer does not work for them, then it does seem to follow that survivors absolutely, urgently need all of us to end mass incarceration. It may be the only practical thing we can do in their names.”
― Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
― Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair

“At the heart of that narrative is the story of an imagined monstrous other鈥攁 monster who is not quite human like the rest of us, who is capable of extraordinary harm and incapable of empathy, who inflicts great pain but does not feel it as we do, a monster we and our children have to be protected from at any price.”
― Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
― Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair

“We could reasonably describe whiteness as the oldest alternative to incarceration in America.”
― Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
― Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair

“True accountability is not neutral鈥攊t is a set of actions as equal and opposite as possible to the wrongful actions committed by the person who caused harm. It is the active exercise of power in the opposite direction of harm; as such, it is a force for healing.”
― Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
― Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair

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