Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have… - Lisa Aldred

The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.

Racism separates, but it never liberates. Hatred generates fear, and fear once given a foothold; binds, consumes and imprisons. Nothing is gained from prejudice. No one benefits from racism.

I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.