We need to make sure we're creating spaces to create new leaders and new types of leadership. — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
What is it going to take to dismantle the systems that keep me from being able to live well and that keep me and… — Alicia Garza Copy Share
Black Lives Matter started from a post that I put on Facebook after the acquittal of George Zimmerman. I woke up in the middle… — Alicia Garza Copy Share
Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe. — Alicia Garza Copy Share
Certainly, we have to make sure our police forces do not have weapons of mass destruction with which they can terrorize our communities. — Alicia Garza Copy Share
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… — Alicia Garza Copy Share
The history of black women in the economy is rooted in the legacy of slavery. Enslaved black women were forced to provide care work,… — Alicia Garza Copy Share
I think that there is an element where leadership is lonely, but I also believe that it doesn't have to be like that. — Alicia Garza Copy Share
The night that George Zimmerman was acquitted, I think, for black people all over the world, there was a collective feeling of incredible grief… — Alicia Garza Copy Share
We need to make sure we're creating spaces to create new leaders and new types of leadership. — Alicia Garza Copy Share
I have a lot of respect for President Obama, and while I deeply disagree with some of his actions or lack of action on… — Alicia Garza Copy Share
'Socialism' became this weird household word partially because right-wingers call Obama a socialist, which he is the farthest from. — Alicia Garza Copy Share
I'll be honest with you: I think that it's really difficult, this framing around 'good cops' and 'bad cops.' Policing, as a system, is… — Alicia Garza Copy Share
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… — Alicia Garza Copy Share
The reason that I started the Black Futures Lab is because I have some clarity about what I think needs to happen in relationship… — Alicia Garza Copy Share
The reality is that race in the United States operates on a spectrum from black to white. Doesn't mean that people who are in… — Alicia Garza Copy Share
