Turn Quotes by Alicia Garza

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

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

Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe.

— Alicia Garza

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

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

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

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

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

We need to make sure we're creating spaces to create new leaders and new types of leadership.

— Alicia Garza

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

'Socialism' became this weird household word partially because right-wingers call Obama a socialist, which he is the farthest from.

— Alicia Garza

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