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I keep threatening to write an essay called "Abolition Is Not About Your Fucking Feelings". I wrote that in a tweet and got so much blowback because people people felt I was insulting their ability to feel what they want to feel. That's really not what I am saying. The concept of the personal being political as a basis for feminist organizing in the past is so true, and yet it is fraught at the same time. What it is not saying - and I think what sometimes people want it to be saying - is that how I personally feel then should be made in a policy. And we can't operate in a world where that's true. We shouldn't codify our personal feelings of vengeance to apply to the entire world.

— We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba (Page 152)

My friend Danielle Sered has said and written this thing that really made a difference for me. [...] "No one enters violence for the first time by committing it." [...] If that's true, then all this shit that we talk about, these binaries about victims and perpetators, that explodes it all.

— We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba (Page 146)

The drive to criminalize has more to do with ideology than effectiveness: the mentally ill are seen not as victims of the neoliberal restructuring of public health services but as a dangerous source of disorder to be controlled through intensive and aggressive policing. Any attempt to reduce the negative effects of policing on this population must directly challenge this ideological approach to policing.

— The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale