WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Albert Woodfox, released from Angola prison after 43 years in solitary confinement. 

Albert Woodfox

 “I can now direct all my efforts to ending the barbarous use of solitary confinement and will continue my work on that issue here in the free world.” -- Guardian

Jamil Smith

Scalia’s passing underscores that waiting for bigots to die is a fool’s errand. It doesn’t excuse us from the work that needs to be done, both organizationally and politically, to further equality. -- MTV News

Donald Trump on his support for Iraq War. 

“I really don’t even know what I mean because that was a long time ago and who knows what was in my head.” -- NBC, Meet the Press

NEA Pres. Lily Eskelsen García

“We definitely hear something new coming out of [Interim Ed Sec. John King],” she said, adding that while his words “mean a lot to us,” teachers are interested in seeing how he backs up those words with actions. “There’s some power in making a speech. I think that actually tells people where you are,” she said. “But if that’s where it ends, we’re in big trouble.” -- Washington Post

"Mr. Dalton was described by neighbors as someone who periodically shot a gun out the back door of his house." And "paranoid." More guns!

— Greg Mitchell (@GregMitch) February 21, 2016

WEEKEND QUOTABLES

Justice Scalia Dead Following 30-Year Battle With Social Progress -- The Onion

Justice Anton Scalia (Departing words)

African-American students do better in "less-advanced schools." -- The Hill

Donald Trump

"Delay, delay, delay…" -- WaPo

Elizabeth Warren

Senator McConnell is right that the American people should have a voice in the selection of the next Supreme Court justice. In fact, they did — when President Obama won the 2012 election by five million votes. -- FB Post

Laura Washington

Yet, in that 60-minute speech, there was not one word about what matters so much to so many who elected him:  Race matters. Black lives matter.  Not a word. -- What Obama did not say in Springfield

Stanley Nelson, director "Black Panthers: Vanguard of a Revolution" 

"When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law." -- Mother Jones

Key difference between the ideas endorsed by Trump and Scalia is that Scalia has a robe and a lifetime appointment. https://t.co/y8lJSpRGOO

— Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) December 10, 2015