“Thank you for fighting so valiantly for your friends and neighbors, for strangers, for human decency and democracy. No one should have to go through the brutality you are going through. I can only imagine how frightened and exhausted you are and still your courage, determination, love and humanity shine through every day.
You make me proud to be an American, and as a Japanese American whose family was uprooted from their homes and interned during World War II, that’s not something I say easily. We see you, we support you, we are with you. You are teaching us what to do and how to be when it’s our homes we are defending. May you be buoyed by the ocean of love that surrounds you.”
(DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA)