“The losers under this injustice system are the young people I know and love.”— Mariame Kaba, thenewinquiry.com
“Protest is this idea of telling the truth in public, and I’ll never be afraid to tell the truth. What I heard in the jail cell and the conversations we had is that the arrests will not stop people from telling the truth, and that people remain as committed to this work today as they were two days ag…”— Deray Mckesson, yahoo.com
“People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise”— Maya Angelou, poets.org
“When people say ‘Black Lives Matter, that doesn’t mean blue lives don’t matter.”— Barack Obama, bustle.com
“First of all, don’t ever start a sentence with, ‘If I were a black father.' If you are a black father, you don’t need to say it and if you aren’t, you should probably just shut the fuck up.”— Seth Meyers, thedailybeast.com