298 Quotes About Black-lives-matter

Racial injustice is America’s original sin and deepest silence.

A statue of a lone Confederate general towers over the Clarksville town center. To hear my grandpa tell it the general was built looking sternly over the Black side of town as a warning regarding where the town's heart lies. As if there were any question.

Accountability is the only real beginning to change.

The Anti-Stereotype SonnetBlack is not evil.White is not trash.Brown is not illegal.Muslims don’t crash.Women ain't weak.Jews ain't greedy.Men ain't playboys.Queer ain't sickly.Hijab is not oppression.Hourglass ain't beauty.Faith is not delusion.Atheists don't lack morality.Assumptions only reveal shallowness.Beyond stereotypes lies humaneness.

Black is not evil.White is not trash.Brown is not illegal.Muslims don’t crash.

We live in a society where race is one of the biggest indicators of your success in life. There are sizable racial divides in wealth, health, life expectancy, infant mortality, incarceration rates, and so much more. We cannot look at a society where racial inequality is so universal and longstanding and say, 'This is all the doing of a few individuals with hate in their hearts.' It just doesn't make sense.

My fortune within corporate America has always been held hostage by white solidarity.

When the people prefer indifference, society regresses down the savage curve.

All too often we as a Black community allow systemic entities to do character reporting and judgment casting on protests, uprisings, our slain, and family/friends of our slain. This is all an attempt to distract the public from the injustices that got us there in the first place.