We Carry Their Bones Quotes

“Art evokes emotion, and sometimes the best way to reset is to let it wash over you.”
― Erin Kimmerle, We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys – The True Story Behind 'The Nickel Boys' and Jim Crow Abuse in Florida

“There were dozens of politicians who could put a stop to our work. We had to change the narrative from a criminal investigation to one of restorative justice and to help the public understand that this was a human rights issue. Denying justice to some puts us all at risk.”
― Erin Kimmerle, We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

“On a tour of an old plantation, one county official told me that Blacks only had it bad after the war. “The Civil War?” I asked, astonished. He corrected me: “The War of Northern Aggression.” That was when it fell apart and they became impoverished, he said, without white caretakers.”
― Erin Kimmerle, We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys