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

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.

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

"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!”