Able Quote by Stanley Nelson Jr

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

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

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

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

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

Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, 'Oh my God, we had no idea.'

— Stanley Nelson Jr

Once your leaders get corrupted one way or another, it's hard to stop the organization from being corrupted.

— Stanley Nelson Jr

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

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

There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.

— Stanley Nelson Jr

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

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