Black Lives Matter Quotes

• Black lives matter. White lives matter. Asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter. That's anti-American and it's racist.

  Rudy Giuliani

  White, Black, Asian

  "Face the Nation transcripts July 10, 2016: Rawlings, Johnson, Bratton, Brooks, Cummings, Giuliani". "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. July 10, 2016.

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• Black Lives Matter is the ultimate divisive movement.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Black, Matter, Movement

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When I'm talking to people, I find myself quoting the three organizing rules of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter was initiated by three young women, and too few people know that. But, anyway, the first one is lead with love. The second is low ego, high impact. The third is move with the speed of trust. I must say those make me feel very hopeful for the future.

  Gloria Steinem

  Moving, Talking, Impact

  Source: www.elle.com

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• 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.

  Cory Booker

  America, Black, Movement

  "Senator Cory Booker: Israel and Middle East Q&A". JLNJ Interview, www.jewishlinknj.com. September 1, 2016.

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• There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are still not seen as human beings. They're still associated with types, with comedy, but we're in a crisis right now, with things like Black Lives Matter. We need films that address these issues.

  Charles Burnett

  Technology, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• What the Black lives matter movement is doing is they are making it personal. They are making it hash tagged, exposing the racial injustice that continues to haunt our country in a way that you can't ignore. There is power in injustice becoming personal.

  Shane Claiborne

  Country, Black, Becoming

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• When you say black lives matter, that's inherently racist.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Black, Racist, Matter

  "Dallas shootings: Policing, race in America and Black Lives Matter". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. July 11, 2016.

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• You know, I had a new kind of thought on Black Lives Matter and the All Lives Matter thing. And the best way to explain it is if we're all sitting around at a table having dinner, and everybody gets pie except for you and you say, my pie matters, I don't have pie, and everybody at the table looks at you and says, I know, all pie matters, it shows that the people at the table aren't really listening.

  Glenn Beck

  Pie, People, Listening

  "Glenn Beck Speaks At Conservative Blog 'RedState' Gathering". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. August 13, 2016.

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• 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.

  Aldis Hodge

  Voice, Black, Matter

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• 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.

  Van Jones

  People, Community, Black

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The efforts of Black Lives Matter to bring attention to the all-too-frequent instances of unjustified violence being used by policemen may not be paying off as quickly as some might hope.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Effort, Black, May

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the widening and broadening of our understanding of inequality. That conversation was begun by Occupy.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Thinking, White, Racism

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The Black Lives Matter movement, the various Occupy movements in Spain and the rest of Europe, in this country, and elsewhere serve as an example of what can be done, and how strong the voices for positive change and truly democratic progress can be.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Country, Strong, Europe

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• 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.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Pain, Mean, Blue

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• 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.

  Ted Nugent

  Lying, Thug, Media

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• 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.

  Cory Booker

  Country, Home, Oakland

  "Jewish Insider's Daily Kickoff". Jewish Insider Interview, www.haaretz.com. August 30, 2016.

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• 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.

  Bethann Hardison

  Thinking, Black, Important

  Source: time.com

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• I think the way the country has changed in part because of the presidency of Barack Obama, I think in part because of what we`ve - the violence that we have seen on our cell phones and our TV sets over the last couple of years. I think Black Lives Matter has helped to force these issues. Women like Sabrina Fulton. We`re having a different conversation in this country right now about race and what it means to really understand your experience is and my experience is.

  Killer Mike

  Country, Couple, Mean

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• 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.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Hate, Justice, Political

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think ['March'] is not just for the Black Lives Matter movement. It's for everyone. We all have to understand what happened then, so we can understand what's happening now.

  Andrew Aydin

  Thinking, Black, Movement

  Source: www.salon.com

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• By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this whole Black Lives Matter movement comes from, the history of resistance, the history of how politicians have used criminality over the decades for a particular political gain. It's to give people an understanding of it so they can make their own decisions about how they want to be in the world.

  Ava DuVernay

  Giving, People, Decision

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Historically it has been a touchy subject, especially in the south where I am from, people don't really talk about it. If they do talk about it, it is often talked about negatively. Nowadays in light of the Black Lives Matter movement I think people should pay attention to these lives also. I think the Black community will really embrace the film [Moonlight]. It is about us. It is real.

  Andre Holland

  Real, Thinking, Light

  Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. November 4, 2016.

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• That's not to say that some of the new media is not advantageous. You can reach lots of folks with what Black Lives Matter is doing, mobilizing people. God bless them.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Media, People, Black

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, "If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on." I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Kids, Thinking, Black

  "Nikki Giovanni on Her Friend Nina Simone: If She Were Here, She'd Be Wearing a 'Black Lives Matter' T-Shirt". Interview with Lottie L. Joiner, www.theroot.com. July 20, 2016.

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• I think this ['March']is essential reading to understand the Black Lives Matter movement. I think it's also essential reading for the Black Lives Matter movement, so that they understand the political context that they're engaging in.

  Andrew Aydin

  Reading, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.salon.com

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