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“Abolition is my religion. I believe in a God who is a liberator, Jesus a first century abolitionist who came to 'set the captives free,' and the Holy Spirit who is our advocate.”

Rev. Nikia Smith Robert, Ph.D.

Founder & Executive Director, Abolitionist Sanctuary

“Abolition is my religion. I believe in a God who is a liberator, Jesus a first century abolitionist who came to 'set the captives free,' and the Holy Spirit who is our advocate.”

Rev. Nikia Smith Robert, Ph.D.

Founder & Executive Director, Abolitionist Sanctuary

“Abolition is defined by 3Rs: to Repair harms, Restore relationships, and Rebuild more just and equitable systems.”

Rev. Nikia Smith Robert, Ph.D.

Founder & Executive Director, Abolitionist Sanctuary

“An ethic of abolition consists of a 5C value system: compassion, care, creativity, courage, and community. These moral principles ought to guide individual and communal actions, political decision-making, organizational strategies, educational goals and faith-beliefs far away from punishment and condemnation, and closer toward justice and liberation.”

Rev. Nikia Smith Robert, Ph.D.

Founder & Executive Director, Abolitionist Sanctuary

“Abolition is a way of life. I am an abolitionist as a parent, partner, professional, and person. I am compelled by an ethic of abolition to dismantle carceral systems and to find alternative responses to punitive harms by striving for sanctuary and communal flourishing.”

Rev. Nikia Smith Robert, Ph.D.

Founder & Executive Director, Abolitionist Sanctuary

“I grew up in Harlem, NY to a poor Black mother who sometimes bent rules and broke laws to survive and secure quality of life for herself and her family against interlocking systems of oppression. Society criminalizes Black mothers who struggle to make a way out of no way but fail to hold accountable the structural inequities that make meeting one’s basic needs nearly impossible. We must reappraise Black women’s moral agency, not as a vice but as virtue, not as sinful but as salvific, not as deviant but as divine.”

Rev. Nikia Smith Robert, Ph.D.

Founder & Executive Director, Abolitionist Sanctuary

“Studies indicate that Black women are the most religious demographic and count on their religion to get through challenging times, but despite being the fastest growing prison population only ⅓ of churches actually mention the criminal system in their sermons. In other words, the criminalization of Black women and mothers is one of the most urgent problems and churches are not saying enough about it!”

Rev. Nikia Smith Robert, Ph.D.

Founder & Executive Director, Abolitionist Sanctuary

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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