profeminist:

mikkeneko:

quasi-normalcy:

black-culture:

Stop demonizing riots.-@zellieimani

The main contradiction of liberal democracy is that it has largely been shaped through a history of various forms of illegal civil disobedience against entrenched power structures. Such civil disobedience is (retrospectively) seen as justified, and the people committing it are (retrospectively) seen as heroes…but each successive generation is asked to believe that any further civil disobedience would be unreasonable.

each successive generation is asked to believe that any further civil disobedience would be unreasonable.

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”— Mignon McLaughlin