White people went home and kept being white.
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Quotes tagged ‘Black Lives Matter’
It’s too soon to know whether Rice will get the remedy she seeks, and whether, if she does, it will change the tide. What I do know, however, is that the search is a refusal of bitterness.
It seems that people don’t realize how much the stuff we read and watch shapes the way we see the world and the people in it, ourselves included.
He said he believed that most of the threats CUP Foods was getting were a form of grief, expressions of outrage from people who felt powerless after watching another Black man get killed by police. But he still didn’t know what might happen. When the brothers closed the doors, they had no idea if th…
Is that Eric Garner worked for some time for the Parks and Rec. Horticultural Department, which means, perhaps, that with his very large hands, perhaps, in all likelihood, he put gently into the earth some plants which, most likely, some of them, in all likelihood, continue to grow, continue to do w…
Behind the facade of millennial pink and Rosie the Riveter posters, mainstream feminism has largely ignored an entire population: marginalized women.
Police dispersed protesters in Seattle's Capitol Hill Occupation Protest (CHOP) area and arrested at least 31 people on Wednesday after an emergency order by Mayor Jenny Durkan.
It would be harmful to our work to not replenish ourselves and care for ourselves.
There is no capitalism without racism.
The sacrificial demand of Black time and energy eats up our best and brightest voices, then spits them out for the greater good.
According to news reports and accounts from observers, there is a 'No Cop Co-Op' with free food, vegan pizza, LaCroix (and White Claw), a hot dog stand (not free), a medical center, a Mutual Aid Books table, a garden, and a giant Black Lives Matter mural.
Don't catch you slippin' now
Remind yourself that simply existing in a Black body is part of the work.
Michael Brown's protest was like a scab that got pulled over America. And George Floyd’s death was like them ripping it off again.
You broke the contract.
And they are lucky that what black people are looking for is equality and not revenge.
The Fox broadcast network started its primetime programming Monday with a 12-second moment of silence and a message to its viewers amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd demanding racial justice.
A movement is only as strong as its integrity.
One person missing from this celebration of corporate beneficence is football's most famous social justice advocate, Colin Kaepernick, who was effectively blackballed from the NFL and settled out of court with the league this year.
No — as a country, as a county — as a society — I do not think we get to celebrate yet. I do not think Dr. King would want to celebrate either.