Mamie Till-Mobley
‘I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and a meaningful heart that I am against the death penalty. There is no purpose that it serves except to further the damage that has already been done.’
'When I began to make the announcement that Emmett had been found and how he was found, the whole house began to scream and to cry. And that's when I realized that this was a load that I was going to have to carry. I wouldn't get any help carrying this load.'
'I wanted the world to see what they did to my baby.'
Quotes About Her:
'They were women who went beyond birth to magnificent action.'
'In many ways the killers saw (Till's death) as a hole, but Mamie saw an earthquake, and she used the aftershocks of the earthquake to wake up and shake up a nation.'
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'When I began to make the announcement that Emmett had been found and how he was found, the whole house began to scream and to cry. And that's when I realized that this was a load that I was going to have to carry. I wouldn't get any help carrying this load.'
'I wanted the world to see what they did to my baby.'
Quotes About Her:
'They were women who went beyond birth to magnificent action.'
'In many ways the killers saw (Till's death) as a hole, but Mamie saw an earthquake, and she used the aftershocks of the earthquake to wake up and shake up a nation.'
To read more about Mamie Till-Mobley, click here