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Top 15 Mariame Kaba Quotes (2026 Update)

Mariame Kaba Quote: “Hope is a discipline.”

1. “Hope is a discipline.”

— Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba Quote: “There is not a single era in United States history in which the police were not a force of violence against Black people.”

2. “There is not a single era in United States history in which the police were not a force of violence against Black people.”

— Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba Quote: “When you say, “What would we do without prisons?” what you are really saying is: “What would we do without civil death, exploitation, and state-sanctioned violence?”

3. “When you say, “What would we do without prisons?” what you are really saying is: “What would we do without civil death, exploitation, and state-sanctioned violence?”

— Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba Quote: “These are feminists who would say, in the words of former political prisoner Susan Saxe, “My feminism does not drive me into the arms of the state, but even further from it.”

4. “These are feminists who would say, in the words of former political prisoner Susan Saxe, “My feminism does not drive me into the arms of the state, but even further from it.”

— Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba Quote: “Some people may ask, “Does this mean that I can never call the cops if my life is in serious danger?” Abolition does not center that question. Instead, abolition challenges us to ask “Why do we have no other well-resourced options?” and pushes us to creatively consider how we can grow, build, and try other avenues to reduce harm.”

5. “Some people may ask, “Does this mean that I can never call the cops if my life is in serious danger?” Abolition does not center that question. Instead, abolition challenges us to ask “Why do we have no other well-resourced options?” and pushes us to creatively consider how we can grow, build, and try other avenues to reduce harm.”

— Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba Quote: “Decarcerating Disability.”

6. “Decarcerating Disability.”

— Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba Quote: “Importantly, we must reject all talk about policing and the overall criminal punishment system being “broken” or “not working.” By rhetorically constructing the criminal punishment system as “broken,” reform is reaffirmed and abolition is painted as unrealistic and unworkable.”

7. “Importantly, we must reject all talk about policing and the overall criminal punishment system being “broken” or “not working.” By rhetorically constructing the criminal punishment system as “broken,” reform is reaffirmed and abolition is painted as unrealistic and unworkable.”

— Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba Quote: “Yes, think about yourself, reflect on your practice, okay. But then you need to test it in the world; you’ve got to be with people. That’s important. And I hate people! So I say that as somebody who actually is really antisocial.”

8. “Yes, think about yourself, reflect on your practice, okay. But then you need to test it in the world; you’ve got to be with people. That’s important. And I hate people! So I say that as somebody who actually is really antisocial.”

— Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba Quote: “After reading Kaba’s analysis, it is clear that the criminal punishment system, not abolition, depends on a superficial view of violence, a facile view of good and evil based on the victim-perpetrator binary. Simple stories of the perfect victim and the monstrous perpetrator bend reality to fit the pretexts for state violence, helping us to pretend that the physical, emotional, social, and civic injuries of prison are somehow justice.”

9. “After reading Kaba’s analysis, it is clear that the criminal punishment system, not abolition, depends on a superficial view of violence, a facile view of good and evil based on the victim-perpetrator binary. Simple stories of the perfect victim and the monstrous perpetrator bend reality to fit the pretexts for state violence, helping us to pretend that the physical, emotional, social, and civic injuries of prison are somehow justice.”

— Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba Quote: “PIC abolition is a vision of a restructured society in a world where we have everything we need: food, shelter, education, health, art, beauty, clean water, and more things that are foundational to our personal and community safety.”

10. “PIC abolition is a vision of a restructured society in a world where we have everything we need: food, shelter, education, health, art, beauty, clean water, and more things that are foundational to our personal and community safety.”

— Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba Quote: “White supremacy does not thrive in spite of the menacing infrastructure of US criminalization and militarism – it thrives because of it.”

11. “White supremacy does not thrive in spite of the menacing infrastructure of US criminalization and militarism – it thrives because of it.”

— Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba Quote: “What does it mean for a rich person to extract money that should be going to the country’s tax base and then decide for themselves how to donate it to the public again? When it’s really our money? When they aren’t accountable to the public?”

12. “What does it mean for a rich person to extract money that should be going to the country’s tax base and then decide for themselves how to donate it to the public again? When it’s really our money? When they aren’t accountable to the public?”

— Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba Quote: “In the North, the first municipal police departments in the mid-1800s helped quash labor strikes and riots against the rich.”

13. “In the North, the first municipal police departments in the mid-1800s helped quash labor strikes and riots against the rich.”

— Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba Quote: “I think that love is a requirement of principled struggle, both self-love and love of others, that we must all do what we can, that it is better to do something rather than nothing, that we have to trust others as well as ourselves. I often repeat the adage that “hope is a discipline.” We must practice it daily.”

14. “I think that love is a requirement of principled struggle, both self-love and love of others, that we must all do what we can, that it is better to do something rather than nothing, that we have to trust others as well as ourselves. I often repeat the adage that “hope is a discipline.” We must practice it daily.”

— Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba Quote: “There are many layers of fear associated with this abandonment: fear of what would happen if the system no longer managed our lives, fear of being devoured by the system ourselves, fear that we cannot win, and perhaps most dauntingly, the fear that we cannot do any better than this, that our hopes to the contrary are the utopian dreams of childish idealists.”

15. “There are many layers of fear associated with this abandonment: fear of what would happen if the system no longer managed our lives, fear of being devoured by the system ourselves, fear that we cannot win, and perhaps most dauntingly, the fear that we cannot do any better than this, that our hopes to the contrary are the utopian dreams of childish idealists.”

— Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba Quote: “It’s important to both ground ourselves in the here and now and also remember that the world is much bigger than this moment, bigger than us and our experience of it, and much bigger than we imagine when we are afraid.”

16. “It’s important to both ground ourselves in the here and now and also remember that the world is much bigger than this moment, bigger than us and our experience of it, and much bigger than we imagine when we are afraid.”

— Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba Quote: “I don’t believe in self-care, I believe in collective care, collectivizing our care, and thinking more about how we can help each other.”

17. “I don’t believe in self-care, I believe in collective care, collectivizing our care, and thinking more about how we can help each other.”

— Mariame Kaba

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