WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Day 5 of the march from Selma to Montgomery in March 1965. The struggle continues. 

Nina Perales, vice president of litigation with MALDEF

“This phrase ['purity of the ballot'] in a modern bill is racism’s calling card.” -- Washington Post.

Outgoing CPS CEO Janice Jackson

“Jackson is proud of her accomplishments and says to critics who say she could have done more: ‘If I could deal with hundreds of years of racism and a century of disinvestment in Black and Brown communities in Chicago in four years or seven years, then I’m Jesus Christ.’” -- Sun-Times 

Bill Gates on his meetings with Epstein

“Every meeting where I was with him were meetings with men. I was never at any parties or anything like that. He never donated any money to anything that I know about." -- Daily Beast

Gordon Brown, former British prime minister

“This is a manmade catastrophe. By our failure to extend vaccination more rapidly to every country, we are choosing who lives and who dies.” -- Guardian

 

Imagine cutting unemployment benefits that cost your state absolutely nothing so you can force people to go back to work with terrible pay and no benefits.

— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) May 8, 2021