“If you understand the Black Lives Matter movement, there's no central leadership of the movement. This is an organic, grassroots movement all around America.” IfsMatterAmericaBlackMovementBlack Lives MatterGrassrootsBlack LivesGrassroots Movements Author:Cory Booker
“The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is bringing forward. There's no fundamental platform being brought by activists in Oakland, Baltimore, or New Jersey. The main issues that you see, the commonality between activists all around the country, are trying to deal with the challenges in the criminal justice system, something that is very much central to my work. So my hope is that people stay focused on the urgency to create justice here at home.” PeopleShouldTryingFirstsCountryMatterHomeBlackChallengesJusticeDealsIssuesMovementConcernedFundamentalsFocusedCriminalsActivistPlatformsJerseyBlack Lives MatterUrgencyStay FocusedJustice SystemNew JerseyCriminal JusticeBaltimoreCriminal Justice SystemCommonalityOaklandBlack Lives Author:Cory Booker
“I especially appreciated hearing the President [Barack Obama] affirm that "black lives matter" and that it means that some citizens are feeling more pain, and experiencing more negative effects than others, and he offered up the stats. He also indicated that black lives matter does not negate the fact that blue lives matter. He ably walked the tightrope, here, between affirming both black life and police life.” MeanDoeMatterFactsFeelingsPainBlackPresidentEffectsCitizensNegativePoliceBlueHearingBarackAppreciatedBlack Lives MatterPresident Barack ObamaAffirmingBlack Lives Author:Julianne Malveaux
“That's why Black Lives Matter thinks I'm so great. The fact of the matter is that everything is consciousness. This conversation is important.” ThinkingImportantMatterFactsBlackConsciousnessConversationBlack Lives MatterBlack Lives Author:Bethann Hardison
“I belong to a bowling team with black and Latino coworkers. And when we get together and we talk about politics - I'm almost quoting him - he said, we don't talk about Black Lives Matters. We talk about what matters to our families. We talk about jobs, and we talk about the fate of the country. That is America, and you can reach those people.” PeopleSaidCountryMatterTogetherJobsAmericaBlackFateTeamOur FamilyWhat MattersBlack Lives MatterLatinoGet TogetherBowlingQuotingCoworkerBlack Lives Author:Steve Inskeep
“Donald Trump's going to start a war, he's going to start attacking immigrants or Muslims or Black Lives Matter or whatever. Because he's going to have to distract them from the no jobs.” WarMatterJobsBlackTrumpImmigrantsAttackingBlack Lives MatterBlack Lives Author:Van Jones
“America's got to look after America again. That means taking a realistic appraisal of who is actually at risk in this country, not whining feminists, or whinging Black Lives Matter activists, but gay people and women at risk from Islam. Also, so people in this country who have been treated badly, lied to and lied about. An honest appraisal of who actually needs government attention in this country. And when all of that is done, then we can think about interfering elsewhere again.” PeopleThinkingNeedsLooksMeanHas BeensCountryMatterDoneGovernmentAmericaBlackAttentionRiskHonestGayIslamFeministTreatedActivistRealisticElsewhereInterfereLiedBlack Lives MatterGay PeopleWhiningAppraisalBlack Lives Author:Milo Yiannopoulos
“Ninety-plus percent of police/community relations is simply wonderful - where people obey the law, don't resist arrest, don't attack cops and don't threaten lives, everyone gets along just fine. When the president [Barack Obama] constantly sides with the worst thugs out there and with the Black Lives Matter terrorists, and the media lies constantly, we the people better get to the truth ASAP.” PeopleMatterLawLyingSidesBlackPresidentCommunityWonderfulWorstMediaFinePercentRelationPoliceTerroristBarackPlusCopNinetyBlack Lives MatterPresident Barack ObamaThugBlack Lives Author:Ted Nugent
“Black Lives Matter is the ultimate divisive movement.” MatterBlackMovementUltimateBlack Lives MatterBlack Lives Author:Milo Yiannopoulos
“Hate speech it seems to be is been defined by the political left as anything we don't like, anything that violates social justice doctrines, feminism, Black Lives Matter kind of ideology. It is not something that I have ever heard particularly effectively defined.” KindMatterSeemsPoliticalHateLeftSocialBlackJusticeHeardFeminismSpeechSocial JusticeDoctrineIdeologyDefinedBlack Lives MatterHate SpeechBlack Lives Author:Milo Yiannopoulos
“There's still a place for marching for instance with the Black Lives Matter movement, we've seen the importance of causing a scene, being on the streets and making your demands and your voice heard.” StillsMatterBlackVoiceHeardStreetsMovementSceneDemandImportanceInstanceBlack Lives MatterBlack Lives Author:Aldis Hodge
“We want to make sure people know deeply about the trans community and deeply about Black Lives Matter so that people can act in solidarity.” PeopleKnowsWantMatterBlackCommunitySolidarityBlack Lives MatterTransBlack Lives Author:Van Jones
“If I talk to rural people where I live - mostly Hispanic but also poor white - they're not sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement.” PeopleIfsMatterBlackWhitePoorMovementBlack Lives MatterSympatheticHispanicBlack Lives Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“If I talk to black students on campus, they're not sympathetic to the people who are not sympathetic with [Black Lives Matter movement]. The fact that you want to argue rather than find some common ground, I think, has gotten a lot worse in the last years.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantYearsMatterFactsLastsBlackCommonMovementStudentsArguingLast YearBlack Lives MatterSympatheticCampusCommon GroundBlack Lives Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story in every kink, curl, and coil.” MatterStoriesBlackHairActivistBlack Lives MatterDetroitCurlsKinkBlack LivesOpal Author:Michaela Angela Davis