Darryl Glenn Quotes

I'm here to say all lives matter.

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.

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

If a brand will shy away from you because you dare to say that black lives matter, that's probably not a brand you want to work with anyway.

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

I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.

Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven.

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

Unlike earlier black-power movements that tried to fight or segregate for self-preservation, Black Lives Matter aligns with the dead, continues the mourning, and refuses the forgetting in front of all of us.

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

We need to stop separating ourselves by how dark or how light we are.

We are proud to say we are racist and hate to see Whites fighting each other. I oppose the Wars.

Abolish lynching

I believe the time has come for equal rights for everyone in this country, even for white people.

The only way you get to the goal of color blindness is to be color conscious along the way.

Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man---this race and that race--- and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position, discarding our standard that we have left us. Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

The whole issue of race and discrimination is a moral issue.

I think Black Lives Matter has some really thuggish elements in it. Look - at the risk of being incredibly politically incorrect, but I guess that's my job - I think that all lives matter. Not least black lives.

We, as a party, are colour-blind.

We march on because all lives matter, not to be judged by the color of their skin.

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

This is not about race or affiliation, and it isn't about black versus blue. All lives matter.