Benjamin Chavis Quotations

The artists themselves talk to young people about their own financial journey toward empowerment.

We learned a lot of young people were ruining their credit by age 20.

Everybody take out your book on financial empowerment. That's why we're here.

There's room in this movement for everybody. 50 percent of the people that came out today were young people and that's very encouraging. That shows us that we not only have a sense of resilience, but I see the torch of leadership being passed to young brothers and sisters in a new generation who are rising to the occasion out of their own rights. And the momentum of this day will be felt in communities throughout the nation.

There was absolutely no justification to have Foxy Brown handcuffed inside the court today.

Young people are very responsive to this thing.

They're being profiled, ... Over and over, our artists are targets only to be later found not guilty. Like (Sean) 'Puffy' (Combs).