In memory of Ahmaud Arbery: “We are stronger when we speak up for each other within and across racial lines… A lot of times our mistake in advocacy is not to connect the dots between communities. Would we be in a different place if we were speaking out against hate crimes when they weren’t impacting us directly?”

Ram Manohar Lohia was an Indian freedom fighter and member of parliament who went to jail for violating Jim Crow laws. The police arrested him, put him in a paddy wagon, and drove him away from the restaurant before releasing him. The State Department promptly sent a formal apology to the Indian ambassador. Decrying his treatment as “tyranny against the United States Constitution,” Lohia told reporters that both the State Department and the Indian Embassy “may go to hell.” Segregation was a moral issue, he stressed, not a political one. When told that the American ambassador to the United Nations would offer his apologies, Lohia replied that Stevenson should apologize to the Statute of Liberty.