Alicia Garza Quotes

We actually know that all lives do matter. And we believe it is so much so that we had to create Black Lives Matter.

I think #BlackLivesMatter is a huge campaign that is important and integral to our advancement as a people.

#BlackLivesMatter is about black pride and black power and standing up against a world that tries to annihilate us.

Everybody remember, Black Lives Matter.

The Black Lives Matter movement has spawned all kinds of activism.

Whether or not you call it Black Lives Matter, whether or not you put a hashtag in front of it, whether or not you call it the Movement for Black Lives, all of that is irrelevant. Because there was resistance before Black Lives Matter, and there will be resistance after Black Lives Matter.

Black lives do matter, and our lives do hold value.

We will not stop fighting until every single black life is provided the type of love and support we so desperately deserve.

We've said from the very beginning Black Lives Matter is a network and also, as a broad set of individuals, is an organization moving to transform the way our society values black lives. It's not an 'Internet movement.'

All lives matter when black lives matter and no lives are more important than black lives.

You know I think with Black Lives Matter, it is extremely special and important. I definitely feel that.

It's true, black lives do matter. It's not that we're saying no other lives matter.

With Black Lives Matter, we knew from the very beginning that it wasn't just going to live online. We were like, 'We're creating this thing and then it's also going to live with black folks on the street and protests and organizations.' It was very important for us to use the hashtag as a way to have a larger conversation and as an organizing tool.

We want Black power.

Black Lives Matter has already demonstrated that it has the power to shift the societal landscape by bringing awareness to age-old issues that have plagued us as a people.

With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.

In 2013, I helped create a black-centered political will- and movement-building project called #BlackLivesMatter.

I've been in movement work since I was 16 years old. Black Lives Matter becomes an important part of the story, but it's not the only part of the story.

Black Lives Matter has become what black communities all over the world have needed it to become. At times, it is a hashtag; at other moments, it is a declaration, a cry of rage, a sharing of light. It has become a movement that is international, worldwide in its scope of liberation for black and oppressed people everywhere.

Black people, we are fully deserving of the room and space to fully express our humanity. This is what Black Lives Matter is truly about.

The Black Lives Matter movement has to, by its very nature, be intersectional because of the complexities of who black people are in this country and throughout the world.

When Black Lives Matter started, it was polarizing.

With support from techies, designers, artists and thousands of activists across the country, Black Lives Matter is now an online-to-offline political movement, affirming the humanity and resilience of black communities.

When you say black lives matter, that's inherently racist.

The Black Lives Matter movement can be read as an attempt to keep mourning an open dynamic in our culture because black lives exist in a state of precariousness. Mourning then bears both the vulnerability inherent in black lives and the instability regarding a future for those lives.