- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Matter Quotes
On what actually counts.
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- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
The story of Black Lives Matter starts before Black Lives Matter. The story of Black Lives Matter, for me, starts with my childhood.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Lives Matter is our call to action. It is a tool to reimagine a world where black people are free to exist, free to live. It is a tool for our allies to show up differently for us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of us believed that Black Lives Matter would move this country to not only reckon with white racism but to usher in new laws and practices that would curb vigilantism and law enforcement violence. But, instead, white nationalism was nurtured and began to take root among the American people.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing that Black Lives Matter had to do was remind people that racism existed in this country because when we had Obama, people thought we were post-racial. That was the debate. Is racism over? And very quickly, we understood that it was not over.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think part of what we're seeing in the rise of white nationalism is their response to Black Lives Matter, is their response to an ever-increasing fight for equal rights, for civil rights, and for human rights.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to see Black Lives Matter be able to ultimately reduce law enforcement funding.
- Grips
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never felt the grips of patriarchy and its need to erase black women and our labor... so strongly until the creation of Black Lives Matter.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I had these romantic ideas about the Black Panther Party and what it meant to be a part of the civil rights movement. Then we're here, and it's dangerous. And it's dangerous to say, 'Black lives matter.'
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our decentralized, localized leadership structure has really allowed for Black Lives Matter structures in their own communities to take on the state and take on some of the most egregious acts against black people.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think what's so powerful about Black Lives Matter is we're the first movement able to take on law enforcement and make it a popular discussion.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through Black Lives Matter and social media, we've been able to have a really challenging discussion with America about police and how much it is investing in policing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
- New York
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020