Black Quote by Opal Tometi

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

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

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

— Patrisse Cullors

We created #BlackLivesMatter. We created a platform. We used our social media presence online in order to forward a conversation about what is taking…

— Opal Tometi

We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together.

— Cesar Chavez

I'm an organizer at heart. Organizers know that giving information, being in front of people, talking to people, to build our movement for the…

— Pramila Jayapal

As a league we know what we stand for, and what we stand by, and the Black Lives Matter movement is something that is…

— Breanna Stewart

We've said from the very beginning Black Lives Matter is a network and also, as a broad set of individuals, is an organization moving…

— Alicia Garza

I've done community organizing my whole life and I think to myself, as an organizer, we don't wait for people to come to us…

— Tarana Burke

I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

— Angela Davis

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

I try to find creative ways to put ideas out to make the ground fertile for organizers.

— Boots Riley