Anger And Hate Quote by Wesley Lowery

“As was the case in Ferguson, the media became as much a motivating factor as the death itself. While cable news talking heads often…

— Wesley Lowery

What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as…

— Barack Obama

“A shortsighted framing, divorced from historical context, led us to litigate and relitigate each specific detail of the shooting without fully grasping the groundswell…

— Wesley Lowery

Ferguson shows the power of social media. This could have not been a story. Or it could have just been a local story. Or…

— Alexandra Petri

“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

Michael Brown's tragic death has revealed a deep distrust between some in the Ferguson community and its police force. It also developed a need…

— Eric Holder

Demonstrations must be dignified and nonviolent, as the overwhelming protests in Ferguson and Staten Island have been. Do not confuse anarchists who don't want…

— Al Sharpton

“It's not the fact that some people disagree with the protests. That is as much a right as the protests themselves. It is the…

— Carlos Wallace

The essence of Ferguson is the spirit of the people, and I'm so happy to see the spirit because I haven't seen it like…

— Jim Brown

“(The protest leaders’ responses that a democracy has ceased to be democratic when its representatives must be shielded from the people they represent went…

— Nathan Hill

I am deeply saddened for the people of Ferguson who woke up to see parts of their community in ruins. No one should have…

— Jay Nixon

“The protestors and the police, the progressives and the authoritarians—they require each other, they create each other, because they need an opponent to demonize.…

— Nathan Hill