Racism Quotes by Patrisse Cullors

#BlackLivesMatter is about black pride and black power and standing up against a world that tries to annihilate us.

— Patrisse Cullors

I think what's so powerful about Black Lives Matter is we're the first movement able to take on law enforcement and make…

— Patrisse Cullors

The unfortunate reality is the alt-right has captured white people's imagination.

— Patrisse Cullors

Racism has its boot squarely wedged on the neck of black communities, and we don't want to be told that hard work…

— Patrisse Cullors

Black Lives Matter was born out of our unwavering love for black people and our undeniable rage over a system that has…

— Patrisse Cullors

In 2013, I helped create a black-centered political will- and movement-building project called #BlackLivesMatter.

— Patrisse Cullors

Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.

— Patrisse Cullors

We need to fight for a new human rights movement that recognizes and values black life.

— Patrisse Cullors

The movement for black lives isn't just about black people. Black liberation has never just been about black people. It's been about…

— Patrisse Cullors

#BlackLivesMatter was born online but now lives in street actions, in conversations in our homes, and in the dignity swelling in our…

— Patrisse Cullors

We keep calling for accountability and reinvestment and a push for all of us to imagine a world where black people are…

— Patrisse Cullors

Black Lives Matter is our call to action. It is a tool to reimagine a world where black people are free to…

— Patrisse Cullors

So many stories have been told about Black Lives Matter. The beauty of building out a decentralized network, the beauty of building…

— Patrisse Cullors

What we acknowledged as a nation during the one-and-a-half year trial of George Zimmerman is that the white majority's public imagination of…

— Patrisse Cullors

With support from techies, designers, artists and thousands of activists across the country, Black Lives Matter is now an online-to-offline political movement,…

— Patrisse Cullors

The black radical agenda, which pushes us closer to freedom and the agenda to which I subscribe, calls for an eradication of…

— Patrisse Cullors

Black Lives Matter has become what black communities all over the world have needed it to become. At times, it is a…

— Patrisse Cullors

Every community has crime and violence; it's a part of being human. This idea that black communities are more violent than others…

— Patrisse Cullors

With Black Lives Matter, we knew from the very beginning that it wasn't just going to live online. We were like, 'We're…

— Patrisse Cullors

Many of us believed that Black Lives Matter would move this country to not only reckon with white racism but to usher…

— Patrisse Cullors

Through Black Lives Matter and social media, we've been able to have a really challenging discussion with America about police and how…

— Patrisse Cullors

The Black Lives Matter National Network and the movement at large are sophisticated. We're not easily won over by talking points and…

— Patrisse Cullors

Wherever black people are in America, criminalization exists. Wherever there is a white-dominant space, deep racism exists as well - no matter…

— Patrisse Cullors

Before BLM, there was a dormancy in our black freedom movement. Obviously many of us were doing work, but we've been able…

— Patrisse Cullors

Our decentralized, localized leadership structure has really allowed for Black Lives Matter structures in their own communities to take on the state…

— Patrisse Cullors

I think part of what we're seeing in the rise of white nationalism is their response to Black Lives Matter, is their…

— Patrisse Cullors

The first thing that Black Lives Matter had to do was remind people that racism existed in this country because when we…

— Patrisse Cullors

Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, Mya Hall, Walter Scott, Sandra Bland - these names are important. They're inherently important, and the space that…

— Patrisse Cullors