“…We don’t know about the study of over 300 conflict situations all over the world, from Erica Chenowith and Maria J. Stephan, that says no regime has been able to withstand the sustained resistance of three and a half percent of the population. Three and a half percent! When I talk to black people about liberation, a lot of us say well there’s not enough of us. It takes three and a half percent! And we make up 13%.” ~ Andre Henry

“The way that I like to articulate this, and I talk about this study often, is just imagine how many people it takes to mess up the subway system in New York — I know we’re in California, we’re not in New York — it literally takes one person to ruin your entire schedule. That’s it! Or somebody walking slowly across an intersection. How fast does traffic build up on the 101 y’all? How fast does it build up on the 210? It takes one person who doesn’t know how to merge! So imagine that as a system. All it takes is a couple of people with good intentions and a good strategy to really mess up the train, or the traffic of white supremacy.” ~ Blair Imani

A conversation with Andre Henry and Blair Imani in the Rector’s Forum at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday, January 19, 2020.

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