71 Quotes About Blacklivesmatter

  • Author AnonymousXgHOST
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    So, When our military soldiers "take a knee" During the #nationAlanthem every morning on military bases around the world for their fallen comrades are they disrespecting our American flag?"Take a Knee Military Meaning"The 1st #takeaknee military meaning is to honor and remember #fallensoldiers. Another is to take a moment to gather yourself while on a mission, Like #BlackLivesMatter.

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  • Author Candice Carty-Williams
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    It's not putting black lives on a pedestal, I don't even know what that means," I said, my heart beating fast. "It's saying that black lives, at this point, and historically, do not, and have not mattered, and that they should!"I looked first at Gina, then around the room to see if anyone was going to back me up. Instead, I was met with what I'd been trying to pretend hadn't always been a room full of white not-quite-liberals whose opinions, like their money, had been inherited.

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  • Author Assata Shakur
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    Any Black person in amerika, if they are honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they don’t know what it feels like to be free. We aren’t free politically, economically, or socially. We have very little power over what happens in our lives. In fact, a Black person in amerika isn’t even free to walk down the street. Walk down the wrong street, in the wrong neighborhood at night, and you know what happens.

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  • Author Assata Shakur
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    Once you’re in prison, there are plenty of jobs, and, if you don’t want to work, they beat you up and throw you in the hole. If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do, the salaries would amount to billions.

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  • Author Assata Shakur
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    Arrogance was one of the key factors that kept the white left so factionalized. I felt that instead of fighting together against a common enemy, they wasted time quarreling with each other about who had the right line.

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