Destination Quote by Alicia Garza

We came in as organizers before creating the Black Lives Matter network and project, and we are still organizers, strategists, political thinkers, and philosophers,…

— Opal Tometi

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

— 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 campaign trail…

— Patrisse Cullors

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until…

— H. Rap Brown

One of the things we've lost as blacks in the United States is imagining different ways the world could be organized, how this country…

— Michael C Dawson

Coming out of the 2016 election, there was a few things that became really clear. One, that black people deserve to have vehicles that…

— Alicia Garza

I have a platform, and I felt compelled to use it to bring awareness to what is happening to Black folks in America and…

— Porsha Williams

I think #BlackLivesMatter is a huge campaign that is important and integral to our advancement as a people.

— Chance The Rapper

The bottom line is that it's hard to find a model in which you can practically administer and sustain political support for those kinds…

— Barack Obama

Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what…

— John Podhoretz

I think the time is right for organizing and to give Blacks more political - the progressive Blacks, you have to make a distinction…

— Huey Newton

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best,…

— Cornel West