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We are fighting for our lives against formidable enemies, but we are optimistic and steadfast in the idea that we can learn to treat each other better. We are participating in various projects of abolition—abolition of prison, abolition of capitalism, and abolition of patriarchal violence. We are practicing and theorizing as we go. We are seeking to eradicate oppressive systems in the world. And all our effort is worth it.

— Unapologetic by Charlene A. Carruthers (Page 18)

A study by the Pew Research Center found that if you fill your Facebook posts with “indignant disagreement,” you’ll double your likes and shares. So an algorithm that prioritizes keeping you glued to the screen will—unintentionally but inevitably—prioritize outraging and angering you. If it’s more enraging, it’s more engaging.

— Stolen Focus by Johann Hari (Page 132)

Empathy makes progress possible, and every time you widen human empathy, you open the universe a little more.

— Stolen Focus by Johann Hari (Page 89)

At the heart of Black people's calls for abolition is the desire to bring to a close the racial terror that we are subjected to and have been subjected to on a continuous basis since Columbus's initial voyages to the Americas. It is out of those epochal crossings, which led to the colonization of the Americas and to the large-scale, forced movement of Africans to its colonies, that many of our current attitudes, prejudices, ideas, and practices of property, contract law, insurance, banking, government, city planning, travel, customer service; indeed, all the networked elements of modern society arose. Foundational to all of it is property—private and public. It is property and our liberation from it that sets abolition apart as a philosophy capable of transforming our understanding of how to live differently together and how to reimagine what life and living can and should mean for all humans. Abolition as both an idea and a practice, then, is as epochal for the future as Columbus's voyages were for our collective past.

— On Property by Rinaldo Walcott (Page 86)