Brothers Quote by Jurnee Smollett-Bell

The night that George Zimmerman was acquitted, I think, for black people all over the world, there was a collective feeling of incredible grief…

— Alicia Garza

I'm a Black man who was raised by a single mother in a housing project. That story doesn't usually end in Congress.

— Jamaal Bowman

“Because the media always serve up heroes and villians, there had to be the terrible mothers, the anti-Madonnas, the hideous counterexamples good mothers were…

— Susan J. Douglas

Black Lives Matter started from a post that I put on Facebook after the acquittal of George Zimmerman. I woke up in the middle…

— Alicia Garza

“To be a mother is to live in fear. Fear of death, of sickness, of loss, of accidents, of strangers, of the Black Man,…

— Joanne Harris

I was told that Daddy was murdered by a white man. I could have adopted an attitude of hating whites. But then in 1974…

— Martin Luther King III

We have two boys. After George Zimmerman was found not guilty of killing Trayvon Martin, we had to explain to our older son, who…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I'm the son of a Black man who was born in the segregated South.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

My mother is an African-American from the South Side of Chicago who married a white guy in 1978. She was hyperaware of racism and…

— Hannah Bronfman

“They try to strike terror in Southern mothers, lest their children grow up to fall in love with Negroes. If they didn’t make an…

— Harper Lee

I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with…

— Lauren London

“in part to the Mothers’example, I ended up speaking frequently and forcefully throughout the campaign about gun violence, racial justice, police reform, and mass…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton