Nate Powell Quotes

• The rules have changed as information and technology evolve, but it's essential that people stay in the streets, stay visible in their communities, on the news, on the Internet, and in this crucial public discussion. There are a million people just like you (or me), sharing the same doubts, fears, and insecurities that keep us from speaking out. Finding each other in our neighborhoods, online, in the streets - this is what keeps us from believing we're alone, from giving in to hopelessness.

  Nate Powell

  Believe, Technology, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I also think it's crucial to convey that the [Black] Movement largely succeeded because of the unwavering dedication of young people willing to risk their comfort, their safety, their lives.

  Nate Powell

  Thinking, Dedication, People

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• One of our priorities when doing "March" is to sort of undo what we feel is the disservice done by what we call the Nine Words Problem. Which is that most American kids, whatever they do learn about the movement, especially in school, is usually limited to Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream." And so there's sort of a layer of unreality; there's not a sense of continuity.

  Nate Powell

  Dream, Kings, School

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I think being able to identify with young people and...their capacity to change the world and shake things up. I think that's the greatest strength.

  Nate Powell

  Thinking, People, World

  "John Lewis marches on: 'Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America'". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• I know "accessibility" is a term that's kind of thrown around wantonly today, especially with talking about visual media. But I think that the strength of comics [is how they] really allow you to transcend those last barriers between a reader absorbing the information of an experience, and a reader being able to project themselves into the [experience of the] people about whom they're reading.

  Nate Powell

  Reading, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I was born in the late '70s and grew up in the deep South, and I was very much still of an era where racism was a casual part of white people's public and private lives, though it had been pushed more into its own little echo chamber by then. As a five year old, I saw a fully costumed Klan circle, complete with burning cross, on a town square in rural Alabama at high noon.

  Nate Powell

  Echoes, Squares, Years

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• A decade passed between King's assassination and my birth, but the older I get, the more acutely aware I become that 10 years is nothing.

  Nate Powell

  Kings, Years, Birth

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Violence from protesters themselves is extremely rare, but has been made into a talking point by those who stand to benefit from breaking the perceived legitimacy of organized protest and resistance. Organized, disciplined nonviolent resistance is alive and well, and we see it all around us in cities across the country.

  Nate Powell

  Country, Talking, Cities

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• People of every age group have connected strongly with the story [the March], identifying with different components of it. A sense of fairness and recognition of injustice seem to be hardwired into kids - I know it was for me, even as an elementary school kid - and I kept that in mind throughout the creation process.

  Nate Powell

  School, Kids, People

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• My four-year-old daughter regularly requests reading Book One [the March] at bedtime; the methods of reading, delivering, and processing the book's content vary according to a kid's age and developmental level, but she's deeply affected by the story, asking follow-up questions for days.

  Nate Powell

  Daughter, Book, Reading

  Source: www.hbook.com

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