Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms.

- Stanley Nelson Jr.

One of the most important parts of the civil rights movement that people don't talk about was these mass meetings. It's like "Movement Church." It's …

- Stanley Nelson Jr.

Part of the problem with Occupy Wall Street was that folks were never really clear on what they were fighting for. If you don't know what you're figh…

- Stanley Nelson Jr.

As the voices beneath the music are talking, you find that the music is just as important as what they're saying. The traditional thing is to lower t…

- Stanley Nelson Jr.

I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives.

- Stanley Nelson Jr.

You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mist…

- Stanley Nelson Jr.

There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.

- Stanley Nelson Jr.

People also don't understand how young the Panthers were - basically teenagers. And that they were over 50 percent women.

- Stanley Nelson Jr.

When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law.

- Stanley Nelson Jr.