โIt would be impossible to control a decentralized spread of sabotage all over the country. No army in the world is capable of controlling such activityโ
- Bonanno, speaking about sabotage in 1980s Italy
"But what are we doing when we demonstrate against police brutality, and find ourselves tacitly calling upon the government to help us do so?"
- Martinot & Sexton
"there are movements seeking to make the police more accountable to legal and communal standards of conduct; but their role then becomes one of making the state work better and more efficiently. They work, perhaps unwittingly, at reconstructing and not dismantling the white state
"It is the job of the spectacular (and sensational reports about the subtle) to draw attention away from the banality of police murder as standard operating procedure."
- Martinot & Sexton
"Most theories of white supremacy seek to plumb the depths of its excessiveness, beyond the ordinary; they miss the fact that racism is a mundane affair."
- Martinot & Sexton
โBlack slavery is foundational to modern Humanismโs ontics because โfreedomโ is the hub of Humanismโs infinite conceptual trajectoriesโ
- Wilderson III
"Black liberation, as a prospect, makes radicalism more dangerous to the United States, not because it raises the specter of some alternative polity (like socialism, or community control of existing resources) but because its condition of possibility as well as its gesture of
which does not mean that it is more, or less, progressive. That is why it is necessary to begin again each time, identify the enemy, the class enemy, the social enemy, power, and attack it, always with new means."
- Bonanno
"the intuition of your ancient Greek philosophers (who remain unchallenged today), reality is of a circular movement wherein the barbarity of the past can present itself at any time. In this circular movement nothing is ever old or new, but rather everything is always different--
"So, as long as it is possible to build states and support exploitation, war and social death, a concept of linear history will be possible. When all that changes, or begins to change, we will finally realize that there is no such thing as linear history but that, according to
โIt has been said that Nazism, realized in Germany in the 1930s-40s, was an explosion of irrationality, that is of a lack of reason. Well, I have never believed such a thing. Nazism was the extreme consequence of the application of reason, i.e. the Hegelian reason of the
โPrison is the normality of the State, and we, who live under the State with our daily lives regulated by its pace and times, are living in a prison.โ
- Bonanno