American citizen Quote by Cecily McMillan

My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought…

— Cecily McMillan

I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two…

— Cecily McMillan

I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings -…

— Cecily McMillan

I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.

— Cecily McMillan

I cannot speak adequately, especially considering my race and my privilege, to the violence of the NYPD or the police in racial terms. That…

— Cecily McMillan

I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.

— Cecily McMillan

I felt like there wasn't a political discourse. I felt like there was just one set of values, and any one set of values…

— Cecily McMillan

Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the…

— Cecily McMillan

If somebody is acting maladjusted - which means not happy to be at Rikers - the protocol, as I understand it and have been…

— Cecily McMillan

You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders. You can't do that, and they should not be held there. They need rehabilitative…

— Cecily McMillan

I think any person who goes to Rikers is criminalized, even just for visiting. I go back every week to see my friends in…

— Cecily McMillan

I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in response to…

— Cecily McMillan