FuckYeahRadicalQuotes!

"Not every white person is a racist, but the genius of racism is that you don’t have to participate..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:42:40 -0400

“Not every white person is a racist, but the genius of racism is that you don’t have to participate to enjoy the spoils. If you’re white, you can be completely oblivious, passively accepting the status quo, and reap the rewards.”

- Mychal Denzel Smith, “White People Have to Give Up Racism” (via zombiemovies)

"There’s a stereotype that black people are lazy. I don’t know if that’s true, but I know white..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:47:53 -0400

“There’s a stereotype that black people are lazy. I don’t know if that’s true, but I know white people went all the way to Africa to get out of doing work.”

- Lance Crouther

(via missgreyday)

"If the first rule of a dysfunctional system is ‘Don’t talk about it,’ then our primary goal should..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 01:38:31 -0400

““If the first rule of a dysfunctional system is ‘Don’t talk about it,’ then our primary goal should be to tell the truth, to be as honest as we can manage to be. When I read something truthful, something real, I breathe a deep sigh of relief and say, ‘Fantastic - I wasn’t mad or alone in thinking that, after all!’ So often we are left to our own devices, struggling in the dark with this external and internal propaganda system. At that point, for someone to tell us the truth is a gift. In a world where people all around us are lying and confusing us, to be honest is a great kindness.””

- David Edwards, Burning All Illusions (via dishabillic)

"If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must acknowledge that your..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:56:24 -0400

“If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must acknowledge that your whiteness affords you a privilege that shields you from a lot. You must also acknowledge that you are afforded privileges that some men in this country do not have. Racism and sexism are tightly intertwined. You cannot fight one while ignoring the other.”

- ladyatheist (via ellesugars)

"Being The Default keeps white Americans from being liberated because it denies them a specific..."

Fri, 03 May 2013 12:36:21 -0400

““Being The Default keeps white Americans from being liberated because it denies them a specific identity by absorbing them into neutral blankness. This creates a lonely detachment from the rest of the world. Being The Default is the largest privilege granted to white Americans, yet it is so deeply entrenched it is the most invisible (we cannot see the edges of the atmosphere, but it exists). Whites benefit from being The Default by having inherent legitimacy in a way that’s denied to people of color. Their experience of life is “normal.” Whites are free from the constant awareness (and subsequent constant paranoia) of existing in another person’s world. Because The Default has so successfully dominated our subconscious, because our egos have been shaped by it from the moment of birth, we perpetuate it in micro ways while fighting inequality with more obvious actions. The silent poison continues to poison. Whiteness as The Default keeps brown people in subjugation by convincing them that every part of their being, physical, spiritual and emotional, exists within a white narrative. When you are made to exist within something you are forced to be smaller than that which contains you. This is precisely the basis of racist thought. Brown existence, brown consciousness is smaller.”- “How Can White Americans Be Free?”, Kartina Richardson”

- we are the man of sun.:

"Don’t call Mexicans wetbacks cuz they crossed a river, you crossed an ocean"

Fri, 03 May 2013 12:33:13 -0400

“Don’t call Mexicans wetbacks cuz they crossed a river, you crossed an ocean”

- Tongva advice I heard to racist anti-immigrant sentiment #agreed (via ohlone)

"What is a ‘radical’ anyway? According to the dictionary, it’s a person with strong convictions who..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:07:14 -0400

“What is a ‘radical’ anyway? According to the dictionary, it’s a person with strong convictions who uncompromisingly advocates for them, who favors drastic political, economic, and/or social reform. Although as a trained botanist, to me radical means something else- the primary root. The foundation. In my mind, if you’re Indigenous and you seek truth, work toward implementing positive change and uplifting the people, and defend Earth and our ancient ways, you must be a radical under the first definition. And if you’re any good, you’ll eventually become the second definition.”

- Ruth Hopkins (via rematiration)

bell hooks,

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:50:49 -0400

“Usually, when people talk about the “strength” of black women … . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation”

Reblog if you are in the United States or Canada and wish to attend an IdleNoMore round dance and/or rally.

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 03:37:08 -0500

adailyriot:

write where you are from.

look down the reblogs, see who’s in your area.

begin organizing!

Debord on Tactics

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 23:50:35 -0500

By rushing into sordid reformist compromises or pseudorevolutionary collective actions, those driven by an abstract desire for immediate effectiveness are in reality obeying the ruling laws of thought, adopting a perspective that can see nothing but the latest news. In this way delirium reappears in the camp that claims to be opposing it. A critique seeking to go beyond the spectacle must know how to wait.

Guy Debord

“I’m here today because I burnt down the Sheepskin Factory in Glendale, CO, a business that...

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 23:50:32 -0500

“I’m here today because I burnt down the Sheepskin Factory in Glendale, CO, a business that sells pelts, furs and other dead animal skins. I know many people think I should feel remorse for what I’ve done. I guess this is the customary time where I’m suppose to grovel and beg for mercy. I assure you if that’s how I felt I would. But, I am not sorry for anything I have done. Nor am I frightened by this court’s authority. Because any system of law that values the rights of the oppressor over the down trodden is an unjust system. And though this court has real and actual power, I question its morality. I doubt the court is interested in the precautions that I took to not harm any person or by-stander and even less concerned with the miserable lives that sheep, cows and mink had to endure, unto death, so that a Colorado business could profit from their confinement, enslavement, and murder.
Obviously, the owners and employees of the sheepskin factory do not care either or they would not be involved in such a sinister and macabre blood trade. So I will not waste my breath where it will only fall on deaf ears. That’s why I turned to illegal direct action to begin with, because you do not care. No matter how much we animal rights activists talk or reason with you, you do not care. Well, Mr. Livaditis (owner of the Sheepskin Factory), I don’t care about you. There is no common ground between people like you and me. I want you to know that no matter what this court sentences me to today, you have won nothing! Prison is no great hardship to me. In a society that values money over life, I consider it an honor to be a prisoner of war, the war against inter-species slavery and objectification! I also want you to know that I will never willingly pay you one dollar, not one! I hope your business fails and you choke to death on every penny you profit from animal murder! I hope you choke on it and burn in hell!
To my supporters, I wish to say thank you for standing behind me and showing this court and these animal exploiters that we support our own and that we as a movement are not going to apologize for having a sense of urgency. We are not going to put the interests of commerce over sentience! And we will never stop educating, agitating and confronting those responsible for the death of our Mother Earth and her Animal Nations. My vegan sisters and brothers our lives are not our own. Selfishness is the way of gluttons, perverts and purveyors of injustice. It has been said all it takes for evil to conquer is for good people to do nothing. Conversely, all it takes to stop the enslavement, use, abuse and murder of other than human animals is the resolve to fight on their behalf!
Do what you can, do what you must, be vegan warriors and true animal defenders and never compromise with their murderers and profiteers. The Animal Liberation Front is the answer. Seldom has there been such a personally powerful and internationally effective movement in human history. You cannot join the A.L.F. but you can become the A.L.F. And it was the proudest and most powerful thing I have ever done. When you leave this courtroom today don’t be dismayed by my incarceration. All the ferocity and love in my heart still lives on. Every time someone liberates an animal and smashes their cage, it lives on! Every time an activist refuses to bow down to laws that protect murder, it lives on! And it lives on every time the night sky lights up ablaze with the ruins of another animal exploiters’ business!
That’s all Your Honor, I am ready to go to prison.” -Walter Bond

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -Edward Abbey Who are...

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 23:50:17 -0500

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -Edward Abbey

Who are these Swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? ….. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and viscious in the American character…. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck Them. - Hunter S. Thompson

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule. - Samuel Adams

Rocko Bulldagger “Doctor Laura, Sit on my Face”

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 23:50:08 -0500

“Queers are a bunch of sadomasochist perverts out to destroy family life as you know it. We don’t just want gay marriage, we want sexual liberation where every single person can choose who, when, and how they fuck. We want that choice to be meaningful and informed. Queers like me want everyone, including straight folks, to feel the effects of our liberation. We’re out to create a world were lovers can cut, brand, fist, bleed, shit and piss on each other, love each other our very own way, and do all the terrible things I know you are thinking of, Dr. Laura, and getting wet as you imagine… Can’t you see we have more in common that our friends would ever suspect? Sit on my face and tell me about depravity, please, just one more time, Doctor!”

"It is worth remembering—particularly because it has been so uniformly suppressed—that the U.S is the..."

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 10:47:37 -0400

“It is worth remembering—particularly because it has been so uniformly suppressed—that the U.S is the only country that was condemned for international terrorism by the World Court and that rejected a Security Council resolution calling on states to observe international law.”

- Noam Chomsky (via theworldofsleepers)

"If people are genuinely interested in honoring Indians, try getting your government to live up to..."

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 03:59:24 -0400

“If people are genuinely interested in honoring Indians, try getting your government to live up to the more than 400 treaties it signed with our nations. Try respecting our religious freedom which has been repeatedly denied in federal courts. Try stopping the ongoing theft of Indian water and other natural resources. Try reversing your colonial process that relegates us to the most impoverished, polluted, and desperate conditions in this country… Try understanding that the mascot issue is only the tip of a very huge problem of continuing racism against American Indians. Then maybe your [“honors”] will mean something. Until then, it’s just so much superficial, hypocritical puffery. People should remember that an honor isn’t born when it parts the honorer’s lips, it is born when it is accepted in the honoree’s ear.”

- Glenn T.Morris

Colorado AIM, 1992

things you can read up on and do now:

-help the Lakota save our sacred land

about: Black Hills Auction: Saving Pe’Sla

do: donate what money you can to help buy back the sacred land - Pe’Sla: Help Save Lakota Sioux Sacred Land

-Northwest Tribes Fight for Treaty Rights in Face of Coal-Trasport Plan

-Go to Indian Country Today Media Network to read up on the latest news and see how you can plug in and support

(via adailyriot)

"In this country, Black women traditionally have had compassion for everybody else except ourselves...."

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:03:58 -0400

“In this country, Black women traditionally have had compassion for everybody else except ourselves. We have cared for whites because we had to for pay or survival; we have cared for our children and our fathers and our brothers and our lovers. History and popular culture, as well as our personal lives, are full of tales of Black women who had ‘compassion for misguided black men.’ Our scarred, broken, battered, and dead daughters and sisters are a mute testament to that reality. We need to learn to have care and compassion for ourselves, also.”

- Audre Lorde (via hiphopcheerleader)

"The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution."

Thu, 31 May 2012 10:07:53 -0400

“The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.”

- (via cowichansweater)

"To be poor in the United States today is to be always at risk, the object of scorn and shame...."

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:40:30 -0400

“To be poor in the United States today is to be always at risk, the object of scorn and shame. Without mass-based empathy for the poor, it is possible for ruling class groups to mask class terrorism and genocidal acts. Creating and maintaining social conditions where individuals of all ages daily suffer malnutrition and starvation is a form of class warfare that increasingly goes unnoticed in this society. When huge housing projects in urban cities are torn down and the folks who dwell therein are not relocated, no one raises questions or protests.”

- bell hooks (via wretchedoftheearth)

"Tragically, the well-off and the poor are often united in capitalist culture by their shared..."

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:37:47 -0400

“Tragically, the well-off and the poor are often united in capitalist culture by their shared obsession with consumption. Oftentimes the poor are more addicted to excess because they are the most vulnerable to all the powerful messages in media and in our lives in general which suggest that the only way out of class shame is conspicuous consumption. Propaganda in advertising and in the culture as a whole assures the poor that they can be one with those who are more materially privileged if they own the same products. It helps sustain the false notion that ours is a classless society. When these values are accepted by the poor they internalize habits of being that make them act in complicity with greed and exploitation. Who has not heard materially well-off individuals talk about driving through poor neighborhoods and seeing fancy cars or massive overeating of junk food? These are the incidents the well-off emphasize to denigrate the poor while simultaneously holding them accountable for their fate.”

- bell hooks (via wretchedoftheearth)

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any..."

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 05:21:23 -0400

““Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.””

- Frederick Douglass (via ungovernablesf)