If somebody is acting maladjusted - which means not happy to be at Rikers - the protocol, as I understand it and have been told by COs unofficially o…

- Cecily Mcmillan

I cannot speak adequately, especially considering my race and my privilege, to the violence of the NYPD or the police in racial terms. That is someth…

- Cecily Mcmillan

I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.

- Cecily Mcmillan

I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in response to …

- Cecily Mcmillan

I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.

- Cecily Mcmillan

I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.

- Cecily Mcmillan

I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two kids in a trailer park.

- Cecily Mcmillan

My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.

- Cecily Mcmillan

I felt like there wasn't a political discourse. I felt like there was just one set of values, and any one set of values was wrong; that there should …

- Cecily Mcmillan