#Collective Liberation

Freedom Is Collective, Not a Private Possession

Finally, a globalized world renders Davis’s claim unmistakable. Movements like Black Lives Matter (2013–present) resonated across continents, while campaigns such as #EndSARS in Nigeria revealed shared patterns of state violence and youth precarity. Supply chains, data flows, and climate impacts bind our fates beyond borders, so freedom now demands cross-border solidarity. Thus the slogan becomes a practice: learn whose freedom is most constrained, align resources to remove those constraints, and measure success by how broadly dignity expands. [...]

Freedom’s Purpose: Extending Liberation Beyond the Self

Ultimately, we should evaluate freedom by its multipliers: ballots actually cast, records cleared, apprenticeships opened, shelters funded, books uncensored, and time returned to caregivers. These are the tangible proofs that one person’s margin of safety became someone else’s starting line. When successes are measured by how many others can now act without permission or fear, Morrison’s standard is met. The work, then, is iterative: free one, who frees another, until liberation ceases to be a story of exceptional escape and becomes the ordinary condition of public life. [...]