75 Quotes by Opal Tometi

Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability.

To me and to a number of other activists from the U.S., we believe that the human rights movement has to evolve and understand the global implications of structural racism. This means engaging the United Nations and a variety of other human rights bodies.

The valuation of profit over people impedes human rights across much of the world.

If people take the fight for justice seriously in their own country and with partners and immigrants in their community and folks in the international community, I believe that we will see human rights for all people affirmed.

Black people, we are fully deserving of the room and space to fully express our humanity. This is what Black Lives Matter is truly about.

When we say 'Black Lives Matter,' we're not saying that any other life doesn't matter. That has never, ever been our message. Our message has always been from a place of love.

I often think of Audre Lorde and her saying that we don't live and we don't fight for one specific struggle.

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed moments, would have fundamentally done away with the racist structures that have long oppressed black people. However, we know that has been far from the case.

I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very honest about that.