Alicia Garza Quotes

I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them…

We have to start imagining a new reality - this will mean fewer police and more social workers and teachers. This will mean creating more economic possibilities and investment that preserves and does not displace our communities.

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.

Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

In the 21st century, the best anti-poverty program is a world class education.

With so much racial tension and issues between the police and black and minority ethnic groups, there needs to be more in-depth conversations if we're going to fix anything.

Communities do need police, but law enforcement needs to be much more transparent and held accountable for their actions. We also need increased resources for mental health services, affordable housing, education, jobs training, and much more to truly address social and economic issues in our communities.

From education to employment, housing to trust in the police, politicians from all parties must understand the different issues affecting individual communities.

I want to see us push for economical and educational advancement in communities of color and low-income communities, and I want to see our relationships between our communities and our law enforcement be advanced.

I'm dedicated to healing the wounds between police and minority communities so both sides feel safe again.

No, I absolutely do not support defunding the police. But it's clear we have been investing too much in force and need to reinvest in understanding and serving our communities.

People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

We must fight inequality and poverty if we want to re-establish peace and security. Seven million Mexicans live in extreme poverty, which is why I have launched a crusade against hunger. We also have to improve our educational system and stimulate economic growth.

Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a particular case, but much more broadly.

I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society.

You can't tackle climate change until you tackle poverty.

What stands out to me in America was all the police vs. citizens turmoil. It's decades of bad policing, bad schooling, racism, bigotry and other factors finally spilling into mainstream culture. I would like to see America evolve on how the laws are enforced on the streets.

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the hunger, misery and poverty of other nations whose citizens are unable to enjoy even elementary human rights. The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.