If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Black Lives Matter has been viral, and people are taking it, appropriating it, and using it however they see fit. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
We actually know that all lives do matter. And we believe it is so much so that we had to create Black… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
We know that there are people in our nation, black people, who are systematically being disenfranchised in a number of spheres in… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
To fully understand the black immigrant experience in the U.S., we must understand it not in contrast to the African-American experience, but… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Anti-black racism operates at a society-wide level and colludes in a seamless web of policies, practices, and beliefs to oppress and disempower… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Black people, we are fully deserving of the room and space to fully express our humanity. This is what Black Lives Matter… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
We came in as organizers before creating the Black Lives Matter network and project, and we are still organizers, strategists, political thinkers,… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Without networks like the Black Immigration Network, organizations like Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees would not get the support and resources and… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
There are always groups on campus that are doing amazing things. I know when I was in college, I was a student at the… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Let's demonstrate, illustrate, the ways in which our communities are being undermined time and time again, and make sure that the broader public and… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Being in the immigrant rights space, I've heard a lot of transactional talk with questions like, 'When will black people show up for immigrants?' — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that they're having with the law enforcement, and… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Antiblack racism is not only happening in the United States. It's actually happening all across the globe. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
I just look back at my time in college and think about how much my community activism and my work in neighborhoods really informed… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Trump's racism has clearly driven his policy decisions during his first year in office - from his Muslim ban and his despicable treatment of… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
I have two younger brothers, and I know my parents have spoken to them about driving and interacting with police. They didn't have those… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge and insight… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Far from ending, systemic racism reinvents itself to conform to what is publically acceptable, leaving the quality of black life diminished and more permanently… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
