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The movie Selma is a story about the American Civil Rights movement that totally worked and now everything is fine.

Jan 12, 2015

Tina Fey, Presenting at the 2015 Golden Globe awards
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[We remember] Martin Luther King as an idea, Selma as an idea…what can happen with strategy, with discipline, and with love.

Jan 18, 2015

Oprah Winfrey, Speaking to marchers
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If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments -- but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.

Jan 20, 2015

Barack Obama, 2015 State of the Union Address
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We forget these are criminals they're out there apprehending. [Mayor] De Blasio's out there on the front lines defending these criminals. But the people who are defending his own family, he's not out here for. And I find it disgraceful…As the leader of this city, he needs to show a little more support for the cops. They're the ones that are dying for us. Simple.

Dec 22, 2014

Bernice Cruz, Fox News
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Anyone who's standing with us, we want you to not use Eric Garner's name for violence, because we are not about that. I'm standing here in sorrow about losing those two police officers.

Dec 21, 2014

Gwen Carr, Speaking to reporters
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Wrongful convictions are a slow, torturous process. It would be so much simpler to be choked out and die at the hands of a cop than to spend the rest of your life in hell based on the malicious acts of a cop.

Dec 05, 2014

Jon-Adrian "JJ" Velazquez, Letter to reporter Dan Slepian - Investigative Producer at Dateline NBC
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Isn’t 007 supposed to [be] handsome? Glad you think I’ve got a shot!

Dec 27, 2014

Idris Elba, Twitter
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The decision…to announce the [Ferguson] decision at 8:30 p.m. CT was foolish and dangerous. Here's the thing about that time of night: it's dark. Anyone – anyone! - should have known the decision in the Brown case would have been controversial. A decision not to indict, which was always possible, even likely, would have been sure to attract protests, even violence. Crowd control is always more difficult in the dark.

Nov 25, 2014

Jeffrey Toobin, CNN op-ed
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The time for remorse would have been when my husband was screaming to breath.

Dec 03, 2014

Esaw Garner, Press Conference
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My son was 12 years old, just a baby, a baby, my baby, the youngest out of four…I want to thank the nation for supporting us. That’s the only way I’m standing today - that I’m standing right now.

Dec 13, 2014

Samaria Rice, Justice for All March in Washington DC
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