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SELMA (2015) dir. Ava DuVernay

“As long as I am unable to exercise my constitutional right to vote, I do not have command of my own life, I cannot determine my own destiny, for it is determined for me by people who rather see me suffer than succeed. Those that have gone before us say no more! No more! That means protest, that means march, that means disturb the peace, that means jail, that means risk and that is hard! We will not wait any longer. Give us the vote!”

I’ve gotten used to a lot. All the hours wondering after your safety, worried about how you are. This house. Renting here. No foundation. Without the things the children should have, all because of how it would look. I have gotten used to it, for better or worse. But what I have never gotten used to, is the death. The constant closeness of death. It’s become like a thick fog to me. I can’t see life sometimes, because of the fog of death constantly hanging over.

Selma (2014) – dir. Ava DuVernay

We will not be stopped. We will march for our rights. We will march to demand treatment as full citizens. We will march until the viciousness and the darkness gives way to the light of righteousness. No man, no myth, no malaise will stop this movement. We forbid it. For we know that it is this darkness that murders the best in us and the best of us. Whether Jimmie Lee Jackson or James Reeb, or four blameless little girls struck down before they had even begun. You may ask, when will we be free of this darkness? I say to you today, my brothers and sisters, despite the pain, despite the tears, our freedom will soon be upon us.

Who murdered Jimmie Lee Jackson? Every white lawman who abuses the law to terrorize. Every white politician who feeds on prejudice and hatred. Every white preacher who preaches the bible and stays silent before his white congregation. Who murdered Jimmie Lee Jackson? Every Negro man and woman who stands by without joining this fight as their brothers and sisters are brutalized, humiliated, and ripped from this Earth.

A movie about a historical figure - Selma (2014, dir. Ava DuVernay) "What happens when a man stands up and says enough is enough?”

movies watched in 2015 -- Selma