I believe that our communities can benefit if they know about and participate in the U.N.'s various human rights forums. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
The U.S.' refusal to acknowledge the plight of displaced Haitians and maintaining inhumane practices of neglect, disrespect, and violence amounts to a… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
The valuation of profit over people impedes human rights across much of the world. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
If people take the fight for justice seriously in their own country and with partners and immigrants in their community and folks… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
My parents being from Nigeria deeply informs all my social justice and human rights work. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
To me and to a number of other activists from the U.S., we believe that the human rights movement has to evolve… — 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
