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> [“Justice is a hard concept to wrestle with when your eyes are filled with scenes of death.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-lowery/justice-is-a-hard-concept-to-wrestle-with-when-your-eyes-are-filled/)

[Wesley Lowery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-lowery/)

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## More by Wesley Lowery

> [“We fall into the fallacy of believing we can litigate the complicated story before us into a black-and-white binary of good guys and bad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-lowery/we-fall-into-the-fallacy-of-believing-we-can-litigate-the-complicated/)

[Wesley Lowery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-lowery/)

> [“The theory is that legitimacy can only be earned through a long-suffering and constant presence. But that view is limiting in that it forecloses…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-lowery/the-theory-is-that-legitimacy-can-only-be-earned-through-a-long/)

[Wesley Lowery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-lowery/)

> [“A shortsighted framing, divorced from historical context, led us to litigate and relitigate each specific detail of the shooting without fully grasping the groundswell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-lowery/a-shortsighted-framing-divorced-from-historical-context-led-us-to/)

[Wesley Lowery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-lowery/)

> [“Power is never given, it's taken." It is an open secret that there exists a conflict between a new generation of young black leadership…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-lowery/power-is-never-given-it-s-taken-it-is-an-open-secret-that-there/)

[Wesley Lowery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-lowery/)

> [“And by focusing on the character of the victim, we inadvertently take the focus off the powerful and instead train our eyes and judgment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-lowery/and-by-focusing-on-the-character-of-the-victim-we-inadvertently-take/)

[Wesley Lowery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-lowery/)

> [“Ferguson would birth a movement and set the nation on a course for a still-ongoing public hearing on race that stretched far past the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-lowery/ferguson-would-birth-a-movement-and-set-the-nation-on-a-course-for-a/)

[Wesley Lowery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-lowery/)

> [“As President Obama's second term toiled on, it became increasingly clear that talk of a postracial America was no more than cheap political punditry.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-lowery/as-president-obama-s-second-term-toiled-on-it-became-increasingly/)

[Wesley Lowery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-lowery/)

> [“The role of the press in the civil rights movement also points to our larger failure as a nation to validate and trust the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-lowery/the-role-of-the-press-in-the-civil-rights-movement-also-points-to-our/)

[Wesley Lowery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-lowery/)

> [“There is nothing that can prepare a family for the heart-clenching shock of losing one of their own. And time and time again, those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-lowery/there-is-nothing-that-can-prepare-a-family-for-the-heart-clenching/)

[Wesley Lowery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-lowery/)

> [“The protests had created a countermovement of skepticism, anger and hate, driven by some who genuinely believed that the coverage of Ferguson was overblown…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-lowery/the-protests-had-created-a-countermovement-of-skepticism-anger-and/)

[Wesley Lowery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-lowery/)

> [“If it doesn't matter how the police -- the system -- treats you, does it matter how you treat them?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-lowery/if-it-doesn-t-matter-how-the-police-the-system-treats-you-does-it/)

[Wesley Lowery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-lowery/)

> [“Justice is a hard concept to wrestle with when your eyes are filled with scenes of death.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-lowery/justice-is-a-hard-concept-to-wrestle-with-when-your-eyes-are-filled/)

[Wesley Lowery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-lowery/)

> [“Every social movement must grapple with the generational and tactical divides that arise between varying groups and factions that comprise the ground troops.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-lowery/every-social-movement-must-grapple-with-the-generational-and-tactical/)

[Wesley Lowery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-lowery/)

> [“In a post-Ferguson world, young black activists were eager to work outside the system. “I voted for Barack Obama twice,” Tef Poe said that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-lowery/in-a-post-ferguson-world-young-black-activists-were-eager-to-work/)

[Wesley Lowery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-lowery/)

> [“As was the case in Ferguson, the media became as much a motivating factor as the death itself. While cable news talking heads often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-lowery/as-was-the-case-in-ferguson-the-media-became-as-much-a-motivating/)

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