7 Quotes by Patricia Thompson

We were cursed when we asked for help for our elderly. We had guns aimed at us by the police who were supposed to be there to protect and serve. They made everybody sit on the ground with their hands in the air, even babies.

No one is going to tell me it wasn't a race issue. Yes, it was an issue of race. Because of one thing: when the city had pretty much been evacuated, the people that were left there mostly was black.

He would have memories of that horrible night until the lord calls him home.

We were abandoned. City officials did nothing to protect us.

We saw buses, helicopters and FEMA trucks but no one stopped to help us. We never felt so cut off in all our lives.

This is how we made it: We slept next to dead bodies, we slept on streets -- at least four times, next to human feces and urine.

I want my mother back, I will never have her.