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“Our starting point is child welfare, but we can see the threads and the connections everywhere else.” - Margaret Prescod, Coordinator at Global Women’s Strike

“Crime is not about conduct. Crime is a social construct.” - Rena Karefa-Johnson, Vice President of National Initiatives at FWD.us

“Reparations are not charity. They are debt that is owed.” - Imani Worthy, Co-Founder and Executive Director at Black Families Love and Unite

“Why Black and Brown families? No other communities have endured continuous government and forced family destruction for centuries… When harm is targeted, repair must be targeted too.” - Imani Worthy, Co-Founder and Executive Director at Black Families Love and Unite

“Putting money in the hands of caregivers has an impact beyond the dollars and cents.” - Jasmine Sankofa, Executive Director at Movement for Family Power

“We are carrying our ancestors as they are carrying us.” - Margaret Prescod, Coordinator at Global Women’s Strike

“We have had networks of kinship, of care. This idea as the standard automatically makes us less safe.” - Zara Raven, Coordinator at Philly Childcare Collective

“There’s a lot of pressure to live up to this nuclear form of family. Communities of color have not historically structured our families that way in the first place.“ - Zara Raven, Coordinator at Philly Childcare Collective

“Ideological oppression leads to institutional oppression. The impact is family separation. The impact is continuing family trauma.” - Imani Worthy, Co-Founder and Executive Director at Black Families Love and Unite

“Ideological oppression always starts with the lie that says one group of people is more deserving of power, resources, and humanity than another.” - Imani Worthy, Co-Founder and Executive Director at Black Families Love and Unite

“We have to resist the framings that powerful people offer us, and offer our own in our resistance.” - Khiara M. Bridges, Professor at UC Berkeley School of Law

“Instead of identifying the causes of that social dislocation in racism, in failure to invest in communities, the Moynihan Report said the issue is Black mothers.” - Khiara M. Bridges, Professor at UC Berkeley School of Law