'Dear Black child, you deserve a liberated learning -- lusciously locked on literacy.' - Dr. Nia Nunn (poet) #FreedomToLearn #FreedomSummer2024

'The RNC co-chair is saying that if Trump wins, that using those exact terms of scorched earth is what will represent the administration. We don't have to try to intuit what their intentions are, they're telling us.' -Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. #FreedomToLearn #FreedomSummer2024institutions .

'Thank you for naming project 2025. I do fear that every state will become (like) Texas if Trump gets (re)elected and project 2025 is implemented.' - Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. #FreedomToLearn #FreedomSummer2024

'The students in Texas have been understandably very upset. They've formed a Senate Bill 17 coalition in opposition of the bill that made the closing and shuttering of DEI offices and trainings legal.' - Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. #FreedomToLearn

'This has been devastating for us at UT Austin, with reverberations that go far beyond the 60+ people who have been terminated. These individuals have been basically banished. These are what I'm calling the politics of banishment, scorched earth policies.' -Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. #FreedomToLearn

'What we see at the base of all of this is a real horrible kind of white supremacy politics that makes these 'scorched earth' practices acceptable in some corner of the universe. Certainly not ours.' - Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. #FreedomToLearn #FreedomSummer2024

'Thank you Shavon Arline for invoking Jesus and spirituality in justice seeking. We need Christ consciousness and we need unity consciousness in this moment -- in a world where people are being othered and made to feel less than.' - Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. #FreedomToLearn #FreedomSummer2024

'Faith leaders have an important role in justice seeking. As I interface with faith leaders, I say that Jesus was the original civil rights leader... You cannot say you love Jesus if you don't love justice.' - Reverend Shavon Arline #FreedomToLearn #FreedomSummer2024

'We have personally reached out to ATF to see how can we utilize the materials #FreedomToLearn has to help get the word out in some core markets across the country. And so our goal is to get that going this summer, as we prepared ourselves for the school year.' - Shavon Arline

'One of the things we are doing to promote the #FreedomToLearn is we're working with our programs, advocacy and policy team to resource young people and families with foundation civics understandings.' - Shavon Arline #FreedomSummer2024

'We are facing the same generational challenges that confronted SNCC organizers during Freedom Summer 1964. And that’s why the freedom to learn is so important.' - Kimberlé Crenshaw #FreedomToLearn #FreedomSummer2024

'By celebrating the suspension of protesters + calling for the firing/prosecution of professors who support students, the right proves its concerns about indoctrination, divisiveness and so-called cancel culture were always phony.' -Kimberlé Crenshaw #FreedomToLearn #FreedomSummer2024

'As the right accuses DEI, affirmative action, and CRT of being 'divisive” on college campuses, contributing to stifling conservative voices, they're doing a 180 to crackdown on free speech at Columbia, USC, UT Austin + other campuses in the country.'-Kimberlé Crenshaw #FreedomToLearn

'Forced illiteracy is what anti-wokeness is trying to achieve. Nothing makes this clearer than Project 2025, a blueprint that would nationalize antiwoke censorship, taking away the hard fought concepts and policies that have helped us get this far.' - Kimberlé Crenshaw #FreedomToLearn

'Most importantly, is the diminished overrepresentation of white men in the White House. One non-white occupant was enough to spark a moral panic. And in order to make that backlash palatable, the Right has hit upon using color-blindness as a cover.' - Kimberlé Crenshaw #FreedomToLearn

'As AAPF co-founder Luke Harris frames the matter, the existential crisis in equality law is not the continued underrepresentation of people of color throughout society, but the “diminished overrepresentation of white people”...' - Kimberlé Crenshaw #FreedomToLearn #FreedomSummer2024

'As we predicted, the assault on Critical Race Theory and structural racism has extended now to “diversity, equity and inclusion” which is now an epithet.' - Kimberlé Crenshaw #FreedomToLearn #FreedomSummer2024 #CRT

'Contrast that memory with today, where systemic racism has been deemed as a divisive concept, purged from curricula all over the country, even from AP African American studies in dozens of states.' - Kimberlé Crenshaw #FreedomToLearn #FreedomSummer2024

'In 2020, when the twin pandemics of COVID and police violence opened a window to see how structured forms of racism shaped the lives and risk of death faced by racially marginalized people; 1 in 10 Americans put their bodies on the street to protest.'-Kimberlé Crenshaw #FreedomToLearn