70 Quotes by Jamie Arpin-Ricci

Compassion without a commitment to justice is not compassion at all.

It is entirely possible to work for justice without thirsting for blood.

It is critical to note that our biases against the other are empowered less by our assumptions of their otherness and more by our assumptions about our own normality.

When you're accustomed to being considered 'normal', difference feels like a perversion.

There is nothing like the moving solidarity of survivors to bring out seemingly boundless impulse to deflect, deny, and defend.

One of the clearest indications of privilege is the freedom to opt out.

Deviant' is the weapon of the normative to discredit and demonize the Other.

One of the deadliest tools of powerful systems is narrow definitions of what is "normal" and the reduction of difference to deviance.

Forgiveness and consequences are not mutually exclusive.