Black lives Quote by Patrisse Cullors

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation…

— Louis Farrakhan

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

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

As a result of the absence and weakness of black men, blacks have allowed every ungodly thing to influence their communities.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need…

— Pearl Cleage

I think what's so powerful about Black Lives Matter is we're the first movement able to take on law enforcement and make it a…

— Patrisse Cullors

We keep calling for accountability and reinvestment and a push for all of us to imagine a world where black people are not policed…

— Patrisse Cullors

I think one of the great things that I have seen happen since the rise of the movement for black lives is the growth…

— Eugene Puryear

I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts different communities…

— Opal Tometi

The government harasses everything. The government must keep a constant surveillance of all activities by black people in order to maintain their reign over…

— John Kani

For the first time in our history, every spectrum of black thought is in the same room on the same page with a cause…

— Louis Farrakhan

Not all of us are as effective as we could be, should be, or need to be, but some of the [most important] issues…

— Michael C Dawson