"Oppression and war will be heard of no more, Nor the blood of a slave leave his print on our shore, Conventions will then be a useless expense, For we'll all go free-suffrage a hundred years hence."

"One hundred years hence, what a change will be made, In politics, morals, religion and trade, In statesmen who wrangle or ride on the fence, These things will be altered a hundred years hence."

"Seize private property!"

"Elect more communists."

"Impoverish the *white* middle class. Homeownership is racist / failed public policy."

"Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy masquerading as “wealth building” public policy."

"There is no such thing as a “good” gentrifier, only people who are actively working on projects to dismantle white supremacy and capitalism and people who aren't."

"Really needing to repress the desire for revenge rn. I wish I believed in god so I could believe that all men who take credit for women's work and all white men who take credit for the work of women of color would one day burn."

"I think that some of those things are certainly not how I would say things today and are regretful. But I do think my decades of experience fighting for more affordable housing stands on its own. [...] I’m proud to be in this role fighting for stronger tenants rights, and I think that, for many years, people have been locked out of the property market. That has produced a lot of systematic and racial inequalities in our system. And I want to make sure that everybody has a safe and affordable place to live, whether they rent or own, and that is something I am laser-focused on in this role."

"Ensuring robust national referral mechanisms (NRMs), which are resourced and functional in implementation is an important step in identification, individual assistance and support, criminal justice and redress and social inclusion of victims and survivors of human trafficking. The design of effective victim and survivor support should incorporate the lived experience and professional expertise of survivor leaders and be tailored to the needs of individual survivors."

"A free-wheeling conversation with Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee 9 March, 2021"

". But because they are in some ways the beneficiaries of racism-they are racists!"

"in a marriage loyalty and fidelity and trust cannot be compromised."

"It is a dastardly crime and an insult to the word democracy to make a commodity of jailing people."

"Critics still see blacks as 'the other,' an 'exotic"

"I usually played good girl wives and mothers. And truthfully those good-girl roles were stretches"

"Racism undercuts confidence. I wish I had known that sooner"

"I dream of getting prisons off the stock exchange"

"In the world of entertainment, the problem for African-American artists is "lack of access to the levels of power"

"we gave ourselves permission to have other partners if we wished to"

"There is still a patronizing attitude in the media towards African-Americans"

"We have to bring forward the graces in life and make them real"

"My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination"

"We have to institute democracy, which is still mostly an aspiration, and universal love, which is still unrealized"

"I am an actress, wife, mother, and own my own home and I have never seen my experiences reflected on the screen."

"I didn't care about being integrated or accepted"

"It occurred to me that being what they call 'colored,' being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage"

"they were just tasting a little teeny bit of what was racism and fascism and the horror of what was happening in the country"

"Preserving the family means everything to our community now"

"When African-Americans are on screen, they've usually got guns."

"I felt envious of what I thought was the male prerogative"

"Feminine sensibilities are not being acknowledged, and we’ve allowed the antipeople to steal the children and are tolerating far too much: the assault on ourselves, the families of the world, permitting war and rape."

"If I could be - somebody could think of me and feel encouraged"

"More women are becoming enraged about these things and I think we’re on the verge of doing something about them"

"I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep"

"I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along"

"I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist ... anything but a racist"

"the dreams stay in my head, they haunt me, they push me and become a kick to my consciousness, making me act"

"The Divine Impulse—it’s always safe to follow it"

"The worries and fears about personal lacks are immobilizing and make me dream the dream too long"

"Staying on the path of something you’re trying to create has much to do with having confidence in yourself and in your capacity to realize the things you want out of life"

"It’s a long road that we’ve gone down, but it’s not over. There’s a division in America today, and it’s time for a reconciliation."

"It doesn’t matter if you have to stand in lines for five or six hours to vote. Stand there.”"

"Tears started streaming down my face because the power of forgiveness is something great. If my dad could forgive George Wallace, who am I to say that I can’t forgive."

"I didn’t know him any other way,And, if I called him something else, he would say that I was rude and disrespectful and wouldn’t listen to me."

"For the first time, we have a critical mass of American Muslim women who are pioneering American Muslim culture"

"They should learn how to do it nonviolently, but that’s it. I think the future looks bright."

"It was tremendous. It was huge. It’s Mississippi, and so much happened in Mississippi, so I thought it was more important than ever. I had a come-to-Jesus moment within my soul. I mean, I’m honored."

"There wasn’t a collection of American Muslim women’s writings across ethnic and ideological lines, These women don’t remember a time when they weren’t both American and Muslim, much unlike our parents, who were raised in other countries or in other faith traditions."