Black people Quote by Patrisse Cullors

When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will…

— Assata Shakur

When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has…

— Angela Davis

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who…

— Toni Morrison

When the residue of oppression and fear are compounded over time, when the historical precedents of policing and discrimination manifest themselves over and over…

— Clint Smith

Any time a black person has the audacity to tell everybody else that they're also human beings, they are confronted with all kinds of…

— Justin Simien

Every community has crime and violence; it's a part of being human. This idea that black communities are more violent than others is just…

— Patrisse Cullors

Under Trump, black lives will become even more vulnerable to state violence.

— Patrisse Cullors

Look at black people dying and suffering in South Africa. I ask why. We've dropped bombs on no one, we've harmed no one in…

— Ron Dellums

I think we have come to a place in black America, sadly from my point of view, where we have once again begun to…

— Shelby Steele

Like so many of you, I am deeply distressed both by the hateful violence in Charlottesville and by President Trump's refusal to clearly denounce…

— Eva Moskowitz

Too far often, Black people are reminded of how far we have come as opposed to how far we can go. In doing this,…

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

“In the United States, violence and heroism have been made synonymous except when it comes to blacks, and”

— James Baldwin