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

37 quotes

It's time to end police brutality and racial inequality #blacklivesmatter.

“Who the hell wants to have a police officer put their hand on them or yell and scream at them? It’s an awful experience. Every black man I know has had this experience. Every one of them. It is hard to believe that the world is your oyster if the police can rough you up without punishment. And when…”

— Roland G. Fryer Jr., nytimes.com

Tagged: Black Lives Matter, blacklives, Research, Data, racism

“Being a black parent, especially of a black boy, comes with the added onus of having to protect your child from a country that is out to get him—a country that kills someone that looks like him every 28 hours, a country that will likely imprison him by his mid-thirties if he doesn't get his high sch…”

— Jazmine Hughes, gawker.com

Tagged: Black Lives Matter, blacklives, black lives matter movement, Injustice, racism

“How much time will I spend finding the correct words to say that the color of a person’s skin is not justification for ending their life? And how much time will elapse until those words mean anything to the people who actually kill us?”

— Kara Brown, jezebel.com

Tagged: Black Lives Matter, black lives matter movement, racism, Justice, Injustice

“The prison therefore functions ideologically as an abstract site into which undesirables are deposited, relieving us of the responsibility of thinking about the real issues afflicting those communities from which prisoners are drawn in such disproportionate numbers. This is the ideological work that…”

— Angela Davis, amazon.com

Tagged: black live matter movement, Black Lives Matter, Prison, systematic racism, Police

“The losers under this injustice system are the young people I know and love.”

— Mariame Kaba, thenewinquiry.com

Tagged: Black Lives Matter, blacklivesmatter, black lives matter organization, Injustice, Police Brutality

“This is urgent. Continued failure to deal with our country’s race-based historical traumas dooms us to perpetually re-enact them.”

— Fania Davis, yesmagazine.org

Tagged: Black Lives Matter, black live matter movement, racism, History

“Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise”

— Maya Angelou, poets.org

Tagged: Black Lives Matter, black lives matter movement, blacklivesmatter, black lives, rise