Marielle Franco Quotes

"I will not be interrupted. I will not put up with interruption from a citizen who comes here and does not know how to listen to the position of an elected woman!”

Quoted in “The spectre of Haiti: structural antiblackness, the far-right backlash and the fear of a black majority in Brazil”. Original source in Portuguese: “UPP – a redução da favela a três letras : uma análise da política de segurança pública do estado do Rio de Janeiro”, page 47

The roses of resistance bloom from asphalt. We receive roses, but we will be with a clenched fist talking about our place of existence against the commands and abuses that affect our lives.

How many more will have to die for this war against the poor to be over?

It is not by chance that when arriving in the favelas […] the police quickly hoist a [Brazilian] flag as a signal of territorial control. That is because these territories are seen … as the enemy's territory.