Alicia Garza

What is it going to take to dismantle the systems that keep me from being able to live well and that keep…

— Alicia Garza

Black Lives Matter started from a post that I put on Facebook after the acquittal of George Zimmerman. I woke up in…

— 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…

— 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 -…

— Alicia Garza

The history of black women in the economy is rooted in the legacy of slavery. Enslaved black women were forced to provide…

— 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…

— Alicia Garza

The night that George Zimmerman was acquitted, I think, for black people all over the world, there was a collective feeling of…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alicia Garza

Every successful social movement in this country's history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was…

— Alicia Garza

The reason that I started the Black Futures Lab is because I have some clarity about what I think needs to happen…

— Alicia Garza

The reality is that race in the United States operates on a spectrum from black to white. Doesn't mean that people who…

— Alicia Garza

I need to create an environment where I can be my best self, and that means being unapologetic about saying no to…

— Alicia Garza

The Black Lives Matter movement has to, by its very nature, be intersectional because of the complexities of who black people are…

— Alicia Garza

My definition of feminism is a social, political, economic system by which all genders are valued, respected, and can live dignified lives.

— Alicia Garza

I've learned much more about politics than I thought I ever would.

— Alicia Garza

When we sit and think about what the world needs to looks like in order for black lives to actually matter, there…

— Alicia Garza

There is no separation between the black community and the LGBT community. As a black, queer woman myself, I often have to…

— Alicia Garza

It's actually OK to be unique and have your own contributions, to celebrate what it means to be black, how we've survived…

— Alicia Garza

It's hard to be a leader when you have to make hard choices and when you have to do what's right, even…

— Alicia Garza

We can make black lives matter in the labor movement by building the kinds of movements that black women need to shape…

— Alicia Garza

The Clintons use black people for votes but then don't do anything for black communities after they're elected. They use us for…

— Alicia Garza