37 #Blacklivesmatter Quotes That Remind Us That This Is Not Just A Moment But A Movement

“If you have a critique for our resistance then you’d better have an established record, a critique of our oppression.”

— Jesse Williams, billboard.com

“But the thing is, we treat racism in this country like it’s a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You’ve got to get it at a lab, an…”

— Chris Rock, vulture.com

“Columbia, South Carolina just fired the CAPTAIN of the Fire Department after he posted online that he was considering running over some Black Lives Matter activists if he saw them. America. 2016.”

— Shaun King, facebook.com

“There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race. Scientifically, anthropologically, racism is a construct — a social construct. And it has benefits. Money can be made off of it, and people who don’t like themselves can feel better because of it. It can describe certain kinds of beha…”

— Toni Morrison, huffingtonpost.com

“We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil -- black gold! -- ghettoizin…”

— Jesse Williams, billboard.com

“There isn’t a place in the world White Supremacy hasn’t touched.”

— Dominique Matti, thsppl.com

“First of all, don’t ever start a sentence with, ‘If I were a black father.' If you are a black father, you don’t need to say it and if you aren’t, you should probably just shut the fuck up.”

— Seth Meyers, thedailybeast.com

“Indeed, in America there is a strange and powerful belief that if you stab a black person ten times, the bleeding stops and the healing begins the moment the assailant drops the knife. We believe white dominance to be a fact of the inert past, a delinquent debt that can be made to disappear if only…”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com

“The Constitution gives you the right, as a white man, to have a rifle in your home. The Constitution gives you the right to protect yourself. Why is it ‘ominous’ when black people even talk of having rifles? Why don’t we have the right to self-defense? Is it because maybe you know we’re going to hav…”

— James Baldwin, amazon.com

“When people say ‘Black Lives Matter, that doesn’t mean blue lives don’t matter.”

— Barack Obama, bustle.com

“Now, what we’ve been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people every day. So what’s going to happen is we’re going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours.”

— Jesse Williams, billboard.com

“It is up to us to take a stand and demand that they ‘stop killing us,' We’re going to stand up as a community and fight against anyone who believes that murder or any violent action by those who are sworn to protect us should consistently go unpunished.”

— Beyoncé Knowles, beyonce.com

“Because this? This is not justice, or peace, or progress. It reeks of death, the stench of corrupt power wielders, it reeks of silence, of institutionalized murder, of heartbreak, of irreparable damages; this feels like waterboarding, like syndicated torture for the masses.”

— Joel Leon, medium.com

“there needs to be a concerted effort to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system.”

— Hillary Clinton, youtube.com

“When you know, we been hurt, been down before, nigga When my pride was low, lookin' at the world like, 'where do we go, nigga?' And we hate Popo, wanna kill us dead in the street for sure, nigga I'm at the preacher's door My knees gettin' weak and my gun might blow but we gon' be alright”

— Kendrick Lamar, play.spotify.com

“I wasn’t surprised about what happened in Baltimore, because of what we had seen in Ferguson. I don’t believe in rioting and all, but I know peaceful protesters are very hard to be seen. What I see with Baltimore, Ferguson and other mass protests is what has been given birth is the Black Lives Matte…”

— Arthur Reed, a.k.a Silky Slim, ijr.com

“It seems that it's either pro-cop and anti-black or pro-black and anti-cop, when, in reality, you can be pro-cop and pro-black, which is what we should all be. It is what we should be aiming for.”

— Trevor Noah, cc.com

“...you can truly grieve for every officer who has been lost in the line of duty in this country and still be troubled by cases of police overreach. Those two ideas are not mutually exclusive. You can have great regard for law enforcement and still want them to be held to high standards.”

— John Stewart, thewrap.com

“The reality is this is a peaceful human rights movement led by incredibly courageous black people. I think we are demanding justice and freedom for our people.”

— Opal Tometi, cleveland19.com

“What it means is that we are all sick and tired of seeing unarmed people shot by police officers, That young people in African-American communities are harassed by police officers, where police departments are not there to be supportive but are in many cases oppressive, and that’s an issue that has…”

— Bernie Sanders, hollywoodreporter.com

“Every member of this body — every Republican and every Democrat — wants to see less gun violence," Every member of this body wants a world in which people feel safe regardless of the color of their skin. And that’s not how people are feeling these days.”

— Paul Ryan, youtube.com

“We can’t affect national narrative, we can’t affect national legislation that comes down and affects local people if local people don’t push back and take a stand about what's happening in local communities,”

— Chelsea Fuller, usatoday.com

“Black women, we see you. We love you. We are with you and we believe in your leadership.”

— Common, billboard.com

“The concept of reverse racism is flawed, if not absolutely ridiculous. Most, if not all of the negative responses from people of color toward white people, are reactions to the hatred, violence, cruelty and brutality that they were shown by white people for centuries. Much of the foundation of the m…”

— Lauryn Hill, sohh.com

“If I go outside and try to hail a cab and he passes me for the white woman standing right there, that racism is still alive and kicking. And we have to change that. And I'm not blaming the white lady, she needed a cab too.”

— Queen Latifah, billboard.com

“Taking on systemic racism—and rebuilding trust between police and citizens—will require contributions from us all.”

— Hillary ClintonVerified account, twitter.com

“People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.”

— James Baldwin, amazon.com

“To be black in America is to exist in haunting, mundane proximity to death at all moments.”

— Hannah Giorgis, buzzfeed.com

“Protest is this idea of telling the truth in public, and I’ll never be afraid to tell the truth. What I heard in the jail cell and the conversations we had is that the arrests will not stop people from telling the truth, and that people remain as committed to this work today as they were two days ag…”

— Deray Mckesson, yahoo.com

“I don’t know where we go from here because those of us who recognize the injustice are not the problem. Law enforcement, militarized and indifferent to black lives, is the problem.”

— Roxane Gay, nytimes.com