"The challenge of the twenty-first century is not to demand equal opportunity to participate in the machinery of oppression. Rather, it is to identify and dismantle those structures in which racism continues to be embedded. This is the only way the promise of freedom can be extended to masses of people."
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From Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture (2005), p. 29.
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