Alicia Garza Quotes

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There has to be a readjustment of resources that is being diverted to police and policing as opposed to community health services, and there certainly has to be control over the police by the communities that they are supposed to protect and serve.

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If you‘re quiet, knowing that there’s a culture of racism inside most police departments, and you’re not saying anything, you are on the wrong side of history.

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Every successful social movement in this country‘s history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action.

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I’ve learned much more about politics than I thought I ever would.

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If I don’t watch the news in a day, I think the potential for humanity is incredible. But anytime I look at the news, I’m like, ‘We’re in really big trouble.’

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The reason that I started the Black Futures Lab is because I have some clarity about what I think needs to happen in relationship to electoral organizing. It’s not a destination. It is a set of tools that we use to engage people that we care about, en masse, around issues that are important to us.

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We need to make sure that we have an honest, honest conversation and that we engage honest practices around how racism operates in this country. It’s not just about people being mean to each other.

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‘Socialism‘ became this weird household word partially because right-wingers call Obama a socialist, which he is the farthest from.

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Growing up in a school that was majority white, my understanding of the world was that I was different but that differences shouldn’t be talked about because it’s uncomfortable.

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Coming out of the 2016 election, there was a few things that became really clear. One, that black people deserve to have vehicles that represent the breadth of our interests. Two, that we really need to do a better job of being able to communicate what conditions and experiences our communities are facing.

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Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it’s meant to make this nation human.

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There is no separation between the black community and the LGBT community. As a black, queer woman myself, I often have to assert, right, that it’s not one or the other but that I am all of these things.

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Protest is best used when it’s part of a strategy that involves escalating tactics that build pressure on targets.

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The history of black women in the economy is rooted in the legacy of slavery. Enslaved black women were forced to provide care work, unpaid, for white families.

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There have to be consequences for police who take the law into their own hands. There has to be a shift in the use-of-force policies that are used in departments across the country.

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I have to be honest: I feel like I live in a constant state of rage, and I think a lot of black people do.

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There is hope for humanity, but in order for us to get there, we really have to interrogate not just what it takes to change laws, but what it takes to change culture that supports laws that uplift humanity and also supports laws that serve to denigrate it.

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How do we stop violence, looting, and riots? The way that we stop that is by making sure that people have the things that they need to thrive.

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I don’t even know what a hashtag is. You don’t turn a hashtag into a movement – people turn things into a movement.

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We want to see a world where black lives matter in order for us to get to a world where all of our humanity is respected.

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The biggest misconception about Black Lives Matter is that BLM is just one entity; Black Lives Matter is an organization and a network. We are a part of the movement, but we are not the movement.

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I’ll be honest with you, I really struggle with the conversation around gun control.

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Just like we don’t live in a two-dimensional world, we don’t live two-dimensional lives.

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The open source nature of the Internet is both a blessing and a curse, because just as much as we can watch what’s happening around the world, we can also be watched.

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What it takes to get people from liking and sharing and retweeting to organising is a hard and long process. Technology has really changed the game in terms of how people participate and what they decide to participate in.

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The best advice I ever got as an organizer was that if you can organize your family, you’re a good organizer.

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People think that we’re engaged with identity politics. The truth is that we’re doing what the labor movement has always done – organizing people who are at the bottom.

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The police are not taking accountability for the violence that they enact in our communities, and yet there isn’t as much outrage about that as there is about some broken windows and lost property.

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I think that there is an element where leadership is lonely, but I also believe that it doesn’t have to be like that.

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We’ve said from the very beginning Black Lives Matter is a network and also, as a broad set of individuals, is an organization moving to transform the way our society values black lives. It’s not an ‘Internet movement.’

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If you’re to look at people’s social networks, not a lot of white people have a social network that has lots of black people – it doesn’t happen. It makes sense to me that online would be as segregated as offline because it’s just mimicking patterns that exist in real life.

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What we’ve seen is an attempt by mainstream politics and politicians to co-opt movements that galvanize people in order for them to move closer to their own goals and objectives. We don’t think that playing a corrupt game is going to bring change and make black lives matter.

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Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe.

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We understand that, in our communities, black trans folk, gender-nonconforming folk, black queer folk, black women, black disabled folk – we have been leading movements for a long time, but we have been erased from the official narrative.

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Black Lives Matter, as a network, will not, does not, has not, ain’t going to endorse any candidates. Now if there are activists within the movement that want to do that independently, they should feel free, and if that’s what makes sense for their local conditions, that’s fantastic.

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I need to create an environment where I can be my best self, and that means being unapologetic about saying no to things that don’t serve me or move me closer to my purpose and the things that I care about the most.

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I am not ready to give up this country without a fight.

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Certainly, we have to make sure our police forces do not have weapons of mass destruction with which they can terrorize our communities.

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We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.

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Saying ‘black lives matter’ both literally and figuratively restores people’s dignity.

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