"The poet [[Audre Lorde]] would famously say many years later that “**the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house**.” Yet with abolition, few quotes more widely miss the mark— and that’s a good thing. Not just because **[[Clarkson]] quite brilliantly collected the various tools of slavery— thumbscrews and chains and whips— which he then displayed to devastating effect at meetings or speeches**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[consumer-boycotts]], [[public-relations]], [[marketing]], [[public-policy]], [[slavery]], [[leadership]], [[personal-values]] **Source** -- [[202409180127 - B - Right Thing, Right Now]]