"That’s what you want; you want your radical demands to become popular...Then they become actionable, and then your elected officials won’t feel as scared to pass something like stopping a $3.5 billion jail because, hey, everybody else is saying the idea of caging thousands of human beings who have mental-health issues isn’t a good idea anymore."
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Quoted in How the movement that’s changing America was built and where it goes next, By Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone (16 June 2020)
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