Andre Braugher Quotes

I often tell people I don't care whether they join the NAACP or some other group, but you better join something.

I founded the 'me too' movement in 2006 because I wanted to find a way to connect with the black and brown girls in the program I ran.

We've seen a lot of people come together, no matter the race, and have support of black people. I think that's a huge thing. I don't know if it's going to fix all our issues, but I think it's a step in the right direction. I go out and I've protested, I've marched.

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

I'm a proud member of the rabble.

When you are a people's movement, you have one thing. Your only asset is people. And you have to deal with real people. Not the people of your imagination. Not the people you wish people would be. But people as they exist actually out there in the real world.

I've learned how to measure what I say. Al Sharpton in 1986 was trying to be heard. I was a local guy and was like, 'Y'all are ignoring us.'

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.

Let's resolve to never be a bystander in the fight for human dignity

Before I went to college, I went to the S.N.C.C. office three times a week to offer my services and catch up on my 'Liberator' magazine. The other two days, I went to the Lycee Francais to keep my French crisp. I felt comfortable in the diversity of my worlds.

I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.

Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.

I always said if I had a platform to speak, I am going to speak. I feel it is just important, not only for African American-related things but world things in general.

When we say 'Black Lives Matter,' we're not saying that any other life doesn't matter. That has never, ever been our message. Our message has always been from a place of love.

Are we that self-centered to believe no one in the world is aware of racism right now? That, as athletes, we solve the real issues by using our platforms to speak? We don't need to say more. We need to find a way to achieve more. Protesting during an anthem, wearing T-shirts is great, but we need to see real actions being put in to the works.

I collaborated with so many people from Chicago - so many Black people, young Black women organizations like BYP100 and Assata's Daughters. Just being out there, I saw what a community mobilizing can accomplish in terms of freedom and how music and my words in my music can play a significant part in that.

When we see active and former NFL players uniting with owners and the League to address injustice, we can see the way football brings people together beyond the game itself.

In September of 2015, I did the unthinkable: I used my second-ever runway show to bring awareness to the Black Lives Matter movement. It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do professionally. It was lonely.

Regardless of how much media coverage will be received, talking and raising awareness about social injustice isn't enough.

When I was 19 or 20, the way I was an activist was by regularly meeting with groups, going to protests, and being there on the ground.