Black lives matter Quote by Nic Stone

People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies.…

— Dee Rees

Martin Luther King Jr. could have argued that separate water fountains were too expensive, a waste of money. He would have been right about…

— Michelle Alexander

You know, civil rights is great and everything, but a lot of people don't realize that plumbers in the South make less money than…

— Andy Kindler

So many people that I've seen can't get clean water. It's a crime.

— Jay-Z

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains.…

— Clarence Thomas

Some officials overseeing local water systems have tried to go above and beyond what is legally required. But they have encountered resistance, sometimes from…

— Charles Duhigg

This is our country, our water. We're entitled to a good life. It's a human rights issue.

— Erin Brockovich

We've had a great change. Dr King saw to that. I was so grateful to see the 'colored only' signs come off the water…

— Mavis Staples

“In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer permissible to hate blacks, but we can hate criminals.”

— Michelle Alexander

“...there is nothing so dangerous in its consequences as injustice to individuals- whether it arise from prejudice of color or from any other source;…

— John Rollin Ridge

“Men and water shouldn’t stay at the same place for long.”

— Abhaidev

Although our rules and laws are now officially colorblind, they operate to discriminate in a grossly disproportionate fashion.

— Michelle Alexander