Simone Pearman

“That is, after all, how it works. We don’t come here with hatred in our hearts. We have to be taught to feel that way. We have to want to be that way, to please the people who teach us to want to be like them. Strange, to think that people might learn to hate as a way of getting some approval, some acceptance, some love. I thought about all that”
― Mamie Till-Mobley, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America

“I have left something of myself in all the children I have touched.”
― Mamie Till-Mobley, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America

“Move back,” President Clinton said. “Let this mother through. Don’t you know who this is?”
― Mamie Till-Mobley, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America

“We are only given a certain amount of time to do what we were sent here to do. You don’t have to be around a long time to share the wisdom of a lifetime. You just have to use your time wisely, efficiently. There is no time to waste.”
― Mamie Till-Mobley, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America