Brown Quote by Kendrick Lamar

“It was then that Brown took his revenge upon the world which, after twenty years of contemptuous and reckless bullying, refused him the tribute…

— Joseph Conrad

“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…

— Wesley Lowery

We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look at every…

— KRS-One

At the height of segregation, with every film role and public appearance, Poitier redeemed Black folks' dignity by pushing back against the relentlessly negative…

— Jonathan Capehart

Honoring George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown Jr., and too many other Black people taken from our communities by state violence is at the…

— Cori Bush

You can't understand what happened to Michael Brown in Ferguson, you can't understand what happened to Eric Garner in New York City, without understanding…

— Bryan Stevenson

I think that out of the tragedy that was Michael Brown's death, some very positive things could happen. That could happen, and the question…

— Eric Holder

...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso

— Aretha Franklin

“Despite the strides America has made in the civil rights movement, eradicating Jim Crow laws, teaching tolerance, and electing an African-American president, racial inequality…

— Lisa Bloom

Young Michael Brown is still somewhat of a wild-child, with the ill behaviour, with the ill behaviour!!

— Clive Tyldesley

Michael Brown happened to be black. Trayvon Martin happened to be black. Eric Garner was a black man. So this pattern continues over and…

— William Lacy Clay, Jr

“The growing spirit of kindliness and reconciliation between the North and South after the frightful differences of a generation ago ought to be a…

— W.E.B. DuBois