Opal Tometi

There are always groups on campus that are doing amazing things. I know when I was in college, I was a student…

— Opal Tometi

Let's demonstrate, illustrate, the ways in which our communities are being undermined time and time again, and make sure that the broader…

— Opal Tometi

Being in the immigrant rights space, I've heard a lot of transactional talk with questions like, 'When will black people show up…

— Opal Tometi

Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that they're having with the law…

— Opal Tometi

Antiblack racism is not only happening in the United States. It's actually happening all across the globe.

— Opal Tometi

I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing.

— Opal Tometi

I just look back at my time in college and think about how much my community activism and my work in neighborhoods…

— Opal Tometi

Trump's racism has clearly driven his policy decisions during his first year in office - from his Muslim ban and his despicable…

— Opal Tometi

I have two younger brothers, and I know my parents have spoken to them about driving and interacting with police. They didn't…

— Opal Tometi

Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge…

— Opal Tometi

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of…

— Opal Tometi

Far from ending, systemic racism reinvents itself to conform to what is publically acceptable, leaving the quality of black life diminished and…

— Opal Tometi

Some of us have held the hands of friends or brothers as they struggled with military and police academy recruiters, and though…

— Opal Tometi

Only when the oppressed are heard can we have an honest solutions based dialogue.

— Opal Tometi

We know that there are people in our nation, black people, who are systematically being disenfranchised in a number of spheres in…

— Opal Tometi

Get involved in your neighborhood. That's how I got really, really committed to the immigrant rights movement.

— Opal Tometi

Racism should be a core concern for all Americans in every area of our lives.

— Opal Tometi

Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.

— Opal Tometi

Due to broken windows policing, the following interactions can lead to tickets, arrests and summonses, warrants if tickets go unpaid and, in…

— Opal Tometi

I have three godkids that are just so gorgeous; I love them dearly, and they keep me going.

— Opal Tometi

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among…

— Opal Tometi

I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very…

— Opal Tometi

I am the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which is the country's only national immigrant rights organization for…

— Opal Tometi

Police cannot be allowed to continue aggressive, violent, and often unconstitutional policing with impunity.

— Opal Tometi

As a community organizer who holds a degree in history, I understand the fascination with history. However, there is a tendency for…

— Opal Tometi