Once you break your identification with the system, with the authoritarian technics that are driving planetary murder, your language and your actions… - Derrick Jensen

To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.

It’s unavoidable: so long as we value money more highly than living beings and more highly than relationships, we will continue to see living beings as resources, and convert them to cash; objectifying, killing, extirpating. This is true whether we’re talking about fish, fur-bearing mammals, Indians, day-laborers, and so on. If monetary value is attached to something it will be exploited until it’s gone.

In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.