"I think that women have had these interactions forever. We know it now. It is something that I have always been aware of, especially Black women being the most, the highest number of women to be human trafficked or kidnapped.”
— Nashima Harvey
“Do not push our numbers with Black immigrants because sometimes that don’t tell the true story of how we living as Black folks in America. ”
— Marquise Knox
“This has been ongoing within our community. So, the anger, the protests, the unrest is warranted. You know, I don’t cosign the movement. Let me be very clear. The looting, the burning, is about power. It’s about these people expressing we are the ones that have the power now; we are in charge.”
— Troy Pearley
“the Choctaw as they call it, and the Chickasaw as they called it. And the creek we are the same people, we are family. We are the Muskogee language people. Those three groups, are people of color. and Andrew Jackson said he was coming to remove black Indians from this Gulf Coast! that's in history..”
— Chief Warhorse
“When I say what took so us so long, I'm not saying we didn't have efforts before this. I'm saying this is the most unified I've seen us and what took us so long to be this unified.”
— Shane Pearley