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Values

Values

We follow a 5C-value system derived from the survival strategies of Black mothers who struggle to provide for themselves and their families against interlocking systems of oppression. These values counter the vices of condemnation, neglect, conformity, cowardice, and individualism—all of which support and perpetuate carceral systems.

We advocate for compassion as a salient response to recognizing vulnerable groups’ inherent worth and dignity while honoring the dire circumstances and contexts that inform decision-making and agency that may transgress dominant social standards.

We illuminate the radical practice of care for the most vulnerable by affirming the fundamental right to equality, dignity, and freedom.

We affirm the power of creativity to imagine new pathways, policies, and programs toward a more just society.

We believe that courage can galvanize a liberation movement to radically challenge structural injustices, notwithstanding ending discriminatory policing, criminalization, and mass incarceration.

We uphold the import of beloved community for coalition building, shared accountability, and collective flourishing.

Vices

The following five vices reinforce carcerality and punitive responses:

The vice to compassion is condemnation, which seeks to punish, blame, and target underrepresented populations as deviants and unworthy of human dignity or access to flourishing.

The vice to care is neglect. The inability to build infrastructure and programs that make it possible for people to access resources and meet basic needs or to thrive is a form of negligence that impedes economies of care.

The vice to creativity is conformity, which stifles liberative imaginations to conjure new and transformative possibilities.

The vice to courage is cowardice, or the fear of confronting and dismantling interlocking systems of oppression.

The vice to community is individualism and self-interest that undergirds neoliberal capitalism, narratives of personal responsibility and blames the poor for their own oppression.

Values Vices
1
Compassion

Condemnation
2
Care

Negligence
3
Creativity

Negligence
4
Courage

Cowardice
5
Community

Individualism
These values guide our ethical practices to conduct business, deliver programs and services, and to guide social interactions as compassionate, caring, creative, courageous, and communal-driven leaders.

Abolitionist Sanctuary is a national faith-based coalition united against the moral crisis of mass incarceration and the criminalization of impoverished Black motherhood.

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