“I was moved by the Women's Marches around the country (and world). And I was glad to hear that they were all "peaceful" and there were no arrests. You know why there were no arrests? Because PR-wise, it was a march that would be attended by mostly white women. And in a world that doesn't protect wom…”— Luvvie Ajayi, facebook.com
“Dr. King, people forget, was not this beloved figure that everybody put on a pedestal. He was considered one of the most dangerous people in America by the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigations.”— Van Jones, imdb.com
“We were not brought here to be made citizens. We were brought here against our will. We were not brought here to enjoy the constitutional gifts that they speak so beautifully about.”— Malcolm X, imdb.com
“History is not just stuff that happens by accident. We are the products of history that our ancestors choose, if we’re white. If we are black, we are the products of the history that our ancestors mostly likely did not choose. Yet here we are all together, the products of that set of choices. And we…”— Kevin Gannon, imdb.com
“But if you dismiss black complaints of mistreatment by police as being completely rooted in our modern context, then you’re missing then point completely. There has never been a period in our history where the law and order branch of the state has not operated against the freedoms, the liberties, th…”— Kevin Gannon, imdb.com
“People say all the time, ‘well, I don’t understand how people could have tolerated slavery?’ ‘How could they have made peace with that?’ ‘How could people have gone to a lynching and participated in that?’ ‘That’s so crazy, if I was living at that time I would never have tolerated anything like that…”— Bryan Stevenson, imdb.com
“That's why when someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible because what it means is that the person who's asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since the time the first black person was kidna…”— Angela Davis, imdb.com
“The Bureau of Justice reported that one in three young black males is expected to go to jail or prison during his lifetime, which is an unbelievably shocking statistic.”— Bryan Stevenson, imdb.com
“So many aspects of the old Jim Crow are suddenly legal again once you’ve been branded a felon. And so it seems that in America we haven’t so much ended racial caste, but simply redesigned it.”— Michelle Alexander, imdb.com
“Right now, we now have more African-Americans under criminal supervision than all the slaves back in 1850s.”— New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, imdb.com
“Misogynoir is at work when white women are praised for wearing styles created by Black women, who get called ‘ghetto’ or ‘ratchet’ for wearing the same fashions... learning about misogynoir helped me understand why society praises the Kardashians for their brazen sexuality but disparages Amber Rose…”— Melissa Brown, resistmedia.org
“Laws meant to protect all women are most often created with white women in mind.”— Melissa Brown, resistmedia.org
“ain’t we all just trying to be some type of sanctuary for someone? for every year we are not destroyed do they not remind us what a miracle it is to have lasted this long?”— Clint Smith, beltwaypoetry.com