On viewing the film Revolution & Religion

"The film brings you up close inside Cornel West's and Bob Avakian's dialogue: the passion, the audacity, the science, the morality, the revolutionary substance. Two courageous voices modeling a morality that refuses to accept injustice – pouring heart and soul into standing together challenging all of us to fight for a world worthy of humanity."

—Andy Zee, co-director of the film

"It was like there was magic in the air." 

—Ardea Skybreak.

"They are both telling the truth. People from Skid Row need to hear this. I want to see the whole thing... In Skid Row you feel so trapped. People think of people there as drug addicts, but most people there are just down on their luck. There’s professionals there, intellectuals, women escaping abuse, people come from all over the country because they think California is better, but end up on Skid Row. They are coming for a better life, but get treated like animals. How can people get out of this madness? You are in a hole and you keep trying to get out, but the system keeps dragging you down. We need a way out!”

—A group of formerly homeless women who had lived on “Skid Row” in LA

"Don't judge a book by its cover

"What struck me as most important was that two people from two different views can actually come together and express theirselves and come to a common agreement, and while disagreeing, that we're all in the movement for the same fight. And it wasn't too much beatin' around the bush, there were actual answers for the questions that we had. I would say to someone who hasn't seen this, don't judge a book by its cover, because you have a history of communism and atheism, don't judge by the cover. You have to first figure out why this is happening and what the solution is to the problem. There's some shit in taking this on you need to hear and listen and learn.

—Young poet from Ferguson