Fred Shapiro, the editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, chose "I can't breathe" as the most notable quote of 2014. Shapiro expressed that it was not a slogan of only that moment, but "a phrase with real and lasting impact".[1] Professor Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Reverend Jesse Jackson wrote in a December 2014 opinion piece that the phrase "has become a slogan for the people who have taken to social media and the streets to protest the killing of unarmed African Americans, challenging a system that fails to indict and calling for greater equality."[8]