Abuse Quote by Jemele Hill

The black community has always complained about abuse from cops. It's nothing new. But now, more people are seeing visual examples of what they've…

— Ron Stallworth

Too many of our fellow Americans have to struggle each day against the obstacles imposed by racism, history and original sin. These obstacles are…

— Conor Lamb

The stuff that the cops do and the stuff that happens, what bothers us, the black community, is it's so blatant... It's so out…

— Jamal Murray

Black Lives Matter is not just concerned with what happens in policing. The disregard, the disrespect, and the lack of dignity for black life…

— Alicia Garza

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. When you…

— Randall Robinson

“As far as i was concerned, the police in the Black communities were nothing but a foreign, occupying army, beating, torturing, and murdering people…

— Assata Shakur

“Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others. Black America ever lives…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery,…

— Angela Davis

It goes back in the black community that the police are not your friends. That's an old, old, deep understanding that we have, that…

— Courtney B. Vance

Black Lives Matter is the ultimate divisive movement. They aren't shy about what they don't like, which is western civilization, capitalism, and the rule…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

If you're quiet, knowing that there's a culture of racism inside most police departments, and you're not saying anything, you are on the wrong…

— Alicia Garza

What we're dealing with is institutional, and unless systems are put into place that will ensure accountability, we can expect racially biased police practices…

— Michelle Alexander