Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, 'Oh my God, we had no idea.' — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms. — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
As the voices beneath the music are talking, you find that the music is just as important as what they're saying. The traditional thing… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law. — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
Part of the problem with Occupy Wall Street was that folks were never really clear on what they were fighting for. If you don't… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But one of… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives. — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, 'Oh my God, we had no idea.' — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
Once your leaders get corrupted one way or another, it's hard to stop the organization from being corrupted. — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
Instead of feeling like there's two or three of us in this town of hostile crackers, I'm in a big church filled with people… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability. — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
One of the most important parts of the civil rights movement that people don't talk about was these mass meetings. It's like "Movement Church."… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
