Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, 'Oh my God, we had no idea.'

Once your leaders get corrupted one way or another, it's hard to stop the organization from being corrupted.

Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, 'Oh my God, we had no idea.'

Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But one of the things you learn in the film is that there were major consequences for even trying to vote. You could be killed for trying to vote. You could definitely be fired from your job and many were, which is why so few black Mississippians even attempted to register early on. They put your name in the newspaper if you tried to register to vote.

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

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

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