Patrisse Cullors Quotes

So people thought once Obama got into office that racism was over with. But, what we ended up learning was that it just came more into the light.

It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed moments, would have fundamentally done away with the racist structures that have long oppressed black people. However, we know that has been far from the case.

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress, racism remains.

Ours has not been a racially democratic society for 300 years.

Shame on America for the plight of the Negroes

He missed that whole civics lesson about slavery or Jim Crow

The race question in America has often been about race, but it has equally often been about power.

If you write about race in 1850, you end up talking about race today because in many ways, so little has changed.

We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.

So many white people don't want to talk about race; it's uncomfortable. Many reason that slavery happened more than a century ago, and people alive today had nothing to do with it. But the particulars of these stories, from slavery to segregation to civil rights and mass incarceration, are at the marrow of life in America today.

I sometimes think they should have said 'Black Lives Matter Too,' because that is really what is being said. The outcry is that historically and presently, the feeling is that black lives don't matter as much as white lives because we don't see the same type of things happening to them.

I've been using the phrase Black Lives Matter quite a lot. I'm not saying that all lives don't matter, I'm just saying that right now black people need support and they need help because of the racism going on all around the world.

I don't approve of many of the attacks of Black Lives Matter. I don't.

Everyone who has a pair of eyes in this country understands the racial tensions and the issues we have are very serious and they're not going away. Just because we had Barack Obama as our president and, on paper, everything looks equal, it's very clearly not.

I think, if you're in the United States, we've seen people trying to speak out in different ways and trying to make themselves heard about the United States' failure to move on generationally, given the long-festering wound of our history around race.

When Black Lives Matter started, it was polarizing.

I think people are uncomfortable talking about the racist history of this country and what we need to do to undo the impact of racism.

Here's the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they're not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.

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

I think racial justice - and addressing the sick and enduring legacy of structural racism - remains one of the greatest challenges of our time, and one that's particularly important for more and more white people to speak up about.

Black Lives Matter is the ultimate divisive movement.

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post-racial or post-black because a man I admire, Barack Obama, is president of the United States, is a joke. And I hope no one will even wonder about this crazy fiction again.