Marches Quotes

“The only marches I have ever witnessed under a banner of so-called "Christianity" have been to enforce oppression and incite hatred and intolerance - and to deprive people of their equal civil rights.”
― Christina Engela, Bugspray

“Later, Tara and other leaders, roughly the same age, lead marches through the streets. Like lambs to the slaughter, we follow. We target the banks. They’re put on notice that their day is over. It’s street theater and people who work there watch the show from windows, high above. Next, the girls lead us to the Chamber of Commerce where plainclothes ex-military protect the movers and shakers from a scattering of college girls and a collection of workers who need better jobs. They watch us through mirrored sunglasses and communicate via hidden microphones and listening devices. It’s a routine that everyone, except us, knows.”
― Gary J. Floyd, Liberté: The Days of Rage 1990-2020

“Dune felt a little thrill in her belly. It was a familiar feeling, when it seems like the world can be changed by some action that happens at the scale of a few committed people. She was raised attuned to this feeling of possibility, could trace it throughout the years, flowing through her mother, flowing through a crowd at the downtown Detroit rallies on water ownership or food deserts or impossible heating bills or other human rights concerns, during the big marches on Washington she had attended as a teenager, walking between Brendon and Kama and feeling connected to everything alive.

She mostly didn't trust the feeling anymore, after years of having it followed swiftly by some reminder of who held power and who didn't.”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, Grievers