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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

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

— Chance The Rapper

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

For us, #BlackLivesMatter is really a re-humanization project. It's a way for us to love each other again, to love ourselves, and to project…

— Alicia Garza

I like to think my work is furthering black culture by educating and empowering black people.

— Franchesca Ramsey

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

Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated…

— Michelle Obama

#BlackLivesMatter is about black pride and black power and standing up against a world that tries to annihilate us.

— Patrisse Cullors

“What would the black community be if we taught our children love, family values, self-respect, nonviolence, how to manage money, how to speak up…

— Lashaunda K. Jackson-Williams

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

— Alicia Garza

Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill…

— Assata Shakur

If you understand the Black Lives Matter movement, there's no central leadership of the movement. This is an organic, grassroots movement all around America.

— Cory Booker