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“I fight White supremacy by raising my daughter to take up space and make her voice heard in a world that wants to quiet her. Rochelle Rice, musician”
― Akiba Solomon, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

“I organize faith leaders and people of faith to dismantle White supremacy and structural racism through the power of representing voices and practices.”
― Akiba Solomon, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

“the urgency of leaders, especially old-school leaders born in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement, to respect young leaders and the strategic ways they show up for the fight.”
― Akiba Solomon, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

“We must acknowledge that we are the dreams of our ancestors and that our fight will require a long view and the ability to bounce back from one painful setback after another.”
― Akiba Solomon, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

“The United States has figured out a way to bend a false interpretation of Christianity to undergird, and make sense of, a logic of White supremacy and racial hierarchy.”
― Akiba Solomon, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

“I had no idea that Black women only get 0.2 percent of all venture capital investments until I was looking and saying, “Where’s the money?”
― Akiba Solomon, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

“liberation is about human flourishing. It is about creating systems that do not limit the ability of human beings to flourish, to reach their highest potential.”
― Akiba Solomon, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

“Confidence. Ali won many of his fights before he even stepped into the ring,”
― Akiba Solomon, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

“Ali always wondered why the press never talked about his supreme commitment to roadwork”
― Akiba Solomon, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

“Since 2011, the Campaign for Black Male Achievement (CBMA) has organized and facilitated an annual intergenerational gathering at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky,”
― Akiba Solomon, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

“Dedication. The battle we’re in requires “the act of devoting all of one’s energy, effort, and abilities to a certain task,” as the Muhammad Ali Center boasts on its walls. Folks”
― Akiba Solomon, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

“The power of Black philanthropy must be multiplied for us to secure the fuel to keep fighting.”
― Akiba Solomon, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

“my recovered glow informs the way I move through the world as a Black woman.”
― Akiba Solomon, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

“I admit that I keep in my mind a romantic notion of an essential Blackness—and I use it as armor.”
― Akiba Solomon, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

“The Champ said: “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
― Akiba Solomon, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

“It will take spiritual fortitude—followed by focused, strategic action—to win the fight against White supremacy.”
― Akiba Solomon, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance

“Giving. In the RYMR leadership guide, Dr. Torie Weiston-Serdan, author of Critical Mentoring: A Practical Guide , says, “Muhammad Ali showed us that giving, even at the point of personal sacrifice,”
― Akiba Solomon, How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance