Erika Hilton: We are marching because we believe that only by marching collectively and organized can we overcome the legacies of slavery; we can overcome the violence that still affects our lives.
Erika Hilton: We are marching for well-being, for reparations, for the lives of Black women, for work, for housing, for food, for quality of life, for access to education, so that we no longer witness mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, daughters crying the deaths of their loved ones in the territories, as we have seen recently.
We are marching, in these 10 years of the Black Women's March, because Brazil has still not repaired its history with us, because Brazil continues to attack and persecute us.
Erika Hilton: Today, without a doubt, is a day of joy, a day of celebration, because we are alive.
Erika Hilton: Conceição Evaristo taught us that they vowed to kill us, but we promised not to die.