Survive the Dome Quotes

“It's not justice when the courts play in favor of the accused.”
― Kosoko Jackson, Survive the Dome

“I should be more afraid. I know I should. There's no difference between me and any of the other men and women who have been on the wrong side of the police, who have been deemed a threat just because their skin is dipped in midnight.”
― Kosoko Jackson, Survive the Dome

“I wanted to show that you people aren't immune, and your Achilles' heel isn't as hidden as you think.”
― Kosoko Jackson, Survive the Dome

“But in the long run, survival isn't what's important; proving those in power can be thwarted is. Because ideas never die - that's one thing I've learned from my mom when she talks about our history as Black people. People may not live on, but the impressions they leave last forever.”
― Kosoko Jackson, Survive the Dome

“The footage will be cut, spliced, and crafted to win the police officers' favor. What's happening here might come up in the next presidential debate for three minutes. But at its core, the struggles of the people of Baltimore will be nothing more than a talking point.”
― Kosoko Jackson, Survive the Dome

“It takes so little experience to become a cop. But that's the trick, isn't it? Most cops aren't old enough to hold other people's lives in their hands, and yet we trust them with exactly that.”
― Kosoko Jackson, Survive the Dome

“Really? A government that has allowed slavery, the internment of Asian Americans, and the unlawful search of Muslims? A country that repeatedly lets Black people die and puts brown children in cages? You think it wouldn't turn a blind eye to something like this?”
― Kosoko Jackson, Survive the Dome

“But no, she's just a Black mother raising a Black son in America.”
― Kosoko Jackson, Survive the Dome

“Plus, as every Black person knows, proximity to whiteness helps us succeed in life, whether we like it or not.”
― Kosoko Jackson, Survive the Dome

“But most of all, he was Black. And that, in America, seems to be a death sentence sometimes.”
― Kosoko Jackson, Survive the Dome