298 Quotes About Black-lives-matter

But if you start from the idea that Blacks are indeed human, then every commitment to equality after that will be unshakable. And that is the thing to be learned from the 1688 petition. Blacks do not need allies who fight for our inclusion; rather, we need people who are possessed of the basic belief that we are human and that any arguments that depend on rejecting that proposition are tyrannical, unjust, and to be fought.

If we go back long enough, every single person on earth comes from a black mother. That makes all of us black, even if some look less black than others.

When white feminism ignores history, ignores that the tears of white women have the power to get Black people killed while insisting that all women are on the same side, it doesn't solve anything. Look at Carolyn Bryant, who lied about Emmett Till whistling at her in 1955. Despite knowing who had killed him, and that he was innocent of even the casual disrespect she had claimed, she carried on with the lie for another fifty years after his lynching and death

Many if not most blacks readily look down on some blacks because of their ethnicity or nationality. Yet they have a problem with their being looked down on, because of their race, by many if not most whites.

Let the force of determination merge with your very existence and the bearers of barbarism will tremble in fear.

our democracy is controlled by a wealthy elite. Politicians who work for the wealthy need the police to protect them from the people. And so the whole chain of command protects the killer cop. The ruling class give carte blanche to law enforcement, who in turn press down on those most stranded by the neoliberal state, the poor-- and more so, the Black poor."-- Nicolas Powers

[Trauma] freezes the soul, which is why as time moves forward, so many Black children fall bahind. They are punished more harshly and expelled more quickly... Stranded in the streets [they] are profiled as older, as a threat, as possibly carrying a weapon. When cops bully them, scare them, fuck with them, it's because our children aren't seen as part of the future."-- Nicholas Powers

I wish you would feel how our ancestors felt as they were handed off from their families and put in dungeons and tortured. Some raped and killed.

America is the land of liberty for white people, but for the people of color it's Nazi Germany.