Flailing Her Puerto Rican Ponytail

At first, nonviolence seems like a clear moral position that has little to do with race. This view is based on the simplistic assumption that violence is first and foremost something that we choose. But which people in this world have the privilege to choose violence, and which people live in violent circumstances whether they want to or not?

—Peter Gelderloos, How Nonviolence Protects the State, p. 31

(Source: so-treu)