Erik Spoelstra Quotes

There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

Wake up America.

Let us all work for the nation that is yet to be but which yet must be.

If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

Black Lives Matter has already demonstrated that it has the power to shift the societal landscape by bringing awareness to age-old issues that have plagued us as a people.

I actually see a lot of the pain and destruction, like Black Lives Matter, in the long-term as positive because it shows that we're moving forward; we're evolving and moving and challenging the frontiers.

I am unapologetic about the need for social change, greater inclusion, and equity.

When I look at our communities, our country, our justice system, those are things I want to change and I'm committed to changing, and that's going to take sacrifice. Laying the foundation is the hardest part and requires a lot of sacrifice and time.

I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.

[James] Baldwin said the real question is not when there will be the first Negro president in this country. The important question is what country he's going to be the president of.

The highest form of patriotism is dissent.

But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America-and change soon. We must help that change to come.

The goal is to talk about the issues that are happening in the USA with the ultimate goal of making change. Not just some rebellious act that we're trying to have against our country.

The only thing I really feel is necessary is that the black people, not only in Mississippi, will have to actually upset this applecart. What I mean by that is, so many things are under the cover that will have to be swept out and shown to this whole world, not just to America. This thing they say of "the land of the free and the home of the brave" is all on paper. It doesn't really mean anything to us. The only way we can make this thing a reality in America is to do all we can to destroy this system and bring this out to the light that has been under the cover all these years.

When you say you want to talk about racial justice, that's not the same as I want to do something about racial justice. Saying I want to hold police accountable is doing something. Saying that I want to take money out of politics, big money, is doing something.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

I believe that movements to suppress wrongs can be carried out under the protection of our flag.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.