Mary Mountcastle lives in Durham, North Carolina. She participated in the Moral Monday rallies and was one of the 900 people arrested for civil disobedience while demonstrating her distress at the backward slide of her state.
"This is no momentary protest. This is a movement. We've been here before, and if slavery didn't kill us, if the oppression of women didn't kill us, surely no weak legislator with 86 votes gonna kill us...instead of defeating us, they've made us defiant."