Simone Pearman

“It is not that I dwell on the past. But the past shapes the way we are in the present and the way we will become what we are destined to become. It is only because I have finally understood the past, accepted it, embraced it, that I can fully live in the moment. And hardly a moment goes by when I don’t think about Emmett, and the lessons a son can teach a mother.”
― Mamie Till-Mobley, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America

“That is, after all, how it works. We don’t come here with hatred in our hearts. We have to be taught to feel that way. We have to want to be that way, to please the people who teach us to want to be like them. Strange, to think that people might learn to hate as a way of getting some approval, some acceptance, some love. I thought about all that”
― Mamie Till-Mobley, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America

“With each day, I give thanks for the blessings of life—the blessings of another day and the chance to do something with it. Something good. Something significant. Something helpful. No matter how small it might seem. I want to keep making a difference.”
― Mamie Till-Mobley, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America

“Strong women don’t merely birth children. They cultivate them to render service.”
― Mamie Till-Mobley, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America