The state is not a passive thing. If it wants to repress a movement or organization, it does not wait for an excuse, it manufactures one. - Peter Gelderloos

The contradiction in ostensibly revolutionary pacifism is that revolution is never safe, but to the vast majority of its practitioners and advocates, pacifism is about staying safe, not getting hurt, not alienating anyone, not giving anyone a bitter pill to swallow.

Free speech does not empower us, and it does not equal freedom. Free speech is a privilege that can be — and is — taken away by the government when it serves their interests.

The goal of our criticism should be solidarity, not homogeneity.