54 Miles Quotes

“She had occasionally heard King lauded for what people called “speaking truth to power” and she agreed that it was a bracing thing. Tonight, however, the world was hearing truth from power, hearing power testify on the side of the vulnerable and the exploited, and that was simply exhilarating. When you have lived your life down in the shadows on the margins, she thought, it was a hell of a thing to be flooded by light, to be seen.”
― Leonard Pitts Jr., 54 Miles: A Novel