Nate Parker Quotes

We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.

Nate Parker

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  Nate Parker
  • Government
  • Singing
  • Silence