Black Lives Quotes:

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

- Coretta Scott King

source: "Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World". Book by Leo Parvis, p. 54, 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Forgiveness, Importunate, Love And Hate

BLM (Black Lives Matter) is pathetic! Obama you are pathetic! Everyone should be locked behind bars like animals!

- Steve Clevenger

topic: Animal, Black, Bars, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

Bill Clinton did everything in opposition to Black Lives Matter and the things that animate the existence of the Democrat Party today.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Party, Black, Matter, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

There's something deeply rooted in American culture. You can pretty much identify what it was. You take a look at the history. It was internal conquest. You had to defend yourself against what the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, an enlightened figure, called the attacks of the "merciless Indian savages," whose known way of warfare was torture and destruction. Also you had a slave population, you had to protect yourself against them. You needed guns.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Gun, Independence, Population, Black Lives, Thirty Years

We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some extent. Essentially re-doing what happened under Reconstruction. That's the history of African Americans - so how can any one say there's no problem. Sure, racism is serious, but it's worse than that.

- Noam Chomsky

source: "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

topic: Racism, African American, Black, Incarceration, Black Lives

When I'm talking to people, I find myself quoting the three organizing rules of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter was initiated by three young women, and too few people know that. But, anyway, the first one is lead with love. The second is low ego, high impact. The third is move with the speed of trust. I must say those make me feel very hopeful for the future.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Moving, Talking, Impact, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are still not seen as human beings. They're still associated with types, with comedy, but we're in a crisis right now, with things like Black Lives Matter. We need films that address these issues.

- Charles Burnett

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Technology, Thinking, Color, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

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.

- Bernie Sanders

source: "Can Bernie Sanders win black voters?" by Nia-Malika Henderson and Chris Moody, www.cnn.com. July 27, 2015.

topic: Life, Fighting, Rights, Black Lives

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.

- Terry McMillan

topic: White, Black, Judgment, Black Lives, Black Person

I think one of the great things that I have seen happen since the rise of the movement for black lives is the growth of more training and leadership spaces.

- Eugene Puryear

topic: Thinking, Space, Growth, Black Lives

Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story in every kink, curl, and coil.

- Michaela Angela Davis

source: Source: www.naturallycurly.com

topic: Hair, Black, Curls, Kink, Opal

The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is bringing forward. There's no fundamental platform being brought by activists in Oakland, Baltimore, or New Jersey. The main issues that you see, the commonality between activists all around the country, are trying to deal with the challenges in the criminal justice system, something that is very much central to my work. So my hope is that people stay focused on the urgency to create justice here at home.

- Cory Booker

source: "Jewish Insider's Daily Kickoff". Jewish Insider Interview, www.haaretz.com. August 30, 2016.

topic: Country, Home, Oakland, Criminal Justice System, Black Lives

Historically it has been a touchy subject, especially in the south where I am from, people don't really talk about it. If they do talk about it, it is often talked about negatively. Nowadays in light of the Black Lives Matter movement I think people should pay attention to these lives also. I think the Black community will really embrace the film [Moonlight]. It is about us. It is real.

- Andre Holland

source: Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. November 4, 2016.

topic: Real, Thinking, Light, Touchy, Black Community

[Hillary Clinton] sort of very cautious kind of uncomfortable, clumsy interaction with the black lives movement, who are very smart in recognizing that historical memory matters, that those legacies live on when you don't identify them, when you're not willing to be in dialog with them, when you're not willing to be self-reflective about the very part that you played as part of that apparatus of power.

- Henry Giroux

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Memories, Smart, Self, Clumsy, Black Lives

I mean, with the exception of Bernie Sanders, the Black Lives Movement, it's very difficult to, in a sense, especially since the 1980s, to talk about what the social contract is and what it means, and what it means to celebrate public goods, what it means to make, create social investments.

- Henry Giroux

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Mean, Black, Movement, Social Contract, Black Lives

The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the widening and broadening of our understanding of inequality. That conversation was begun by Occupy.

- Cathy O'Neil

topic: Thinking, White, Racism, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

The efforts of Black Lives Matter to bring attention to the all-too-frequent instances of unjustified violence being used by policemen may not be paying off as quickly as some might hope.

- Viggo Mortensen

source: Source: www.progressive.org

topic: Effort, Black, May, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

The Black Lives Matter movement, the various Occupy movements in Spain and the rest of Europe, in this country, and elsewhere serve as an example of what can be done, and how strong the voices for positive change and truly democratic progress can be.

- Viggo Mortensen

source: Source: www.progressive.org

topic: Country, Strong, Europe, Occupy Movement, Black Lives

By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this whole Black Lives Matter movement comes from, the history of resistance, the history of how politicians have used criminality over the decades for a particular political gain. It's to give people an understanding of it so they can make their own decisions about how they want to be in the world.

- Ava DuVernay

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Giving, People, Decision, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

I especially appreciated hearing the President [Barack Obama] affirm that "black lives matter" and that it means that some citizens are feeling more pain, and experiencing more negative effects than others, and he offered up the stats. He also indicated that black lives matter does not negate the fact that blue lives matter. He ably walked the tightrope, here, between affirming both black life and police life.

- Julianne Malveaux

source: Source: www.theskanner.com

topic: Pain, Mean, Blue, Affirming, Black Lives

That's why Black Lives Matter thinks I'm so great. The fact of the matter is that everything is consciousness. This conversation is important.

- Bethann Hardison

source: Source: time.com

topic: Thinking, Black, Important, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

There's still a place for marching for instance with the Black Lives Matter movement, we've seen the importance of causing a scene, being on the streets and making your demands and your voice heard.

- Aldis Hodge

source: Source: lasentinel.net

topic: Voice, Black, Matter, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

We want to make sure people know deeply about the trans community and deeply about Black Lives Matter so that people can act in solidarity.

- Van Jones

source: Source: www.ebony.com

topic: People, Community, Black, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

I talked to a lot of Black Lives activists in various states. What I learned is that the relationship of police departments around the country with the black community is far, far more severe and awful than I had originally known.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: billmoyers.com

topic: Country, Community, Police, Police Department, Black Community

If I talk to rural people where I live - mostly Hispanic but also poor white - they're not sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement.

- Victor Davis Hanson

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: White, People, Black, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter is the ultimate divisive movement.

- Milo Yiannopoulos

topic: Black, Matter, Movement, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

If I talk to black students on campus, they're not sympathetic to the people who are not sympathetic with [Black Lives Matter movement]. The fact that you want to argue rather than find some common ground, I think, has gotten a lot worse in the last years.

- Victor Davis Hanson

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Thinking, Years, People, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

America's got to look after America again. That means taking a realistic appraisal of who is actually at risk in this country, not whining feminists, or whinging Black Lives Matter activists, but gay people and women at risk from Islam. Also, so people in this country who have been treated badly, lied to and lied about. An honest appraisal of who actually needs government attention in this country. And when all of that is done, then we can think about interfering elsewhere again.

- Milo Yiannopoulos

topic: Country, Mean, Gay, Appraisal, Black Lives

Donald Trump's going to start a war, he's going to start attacking immigrants or Muslims or Black Lives Matter or whatever. Because he's going to have to distract them from the no jobs.

- Van Jones

topic: Jobs, War, Black, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

I belong to a bowling team with black and Latino coworkers. And when we get together and we talk about politics - I'm almost quoting him - he said, we don't talk about Black Lives Matters. We talk about what matters to our families. We talk about jobs, and we talk about the fate of the country. That is America, and you can reach those people.

- Steve Inskeep

topic: Country, Jobs, Team, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

Ninety-plus percent of police/community relations is simply wonderful - where people obey the law, don't resist arrest, don't attack cops and don't threaten lives, everyone gets along just fine. When the president [Barack Obama] constantly sides with the worst thugs out there and with the Black Lives Matter terrorists, and the media lies constantly, we the people better get to the truth ASAP.

- Ted Nugent

source: Source: www.chicagotribune.com

topic: Lying, Thug, Media, President Barack Obama, Black Lives

The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually look, almost all the cases brought up for personal rights under the Fourteenth Amendment were by corporations. Freed slaves couldn't do it. In fact they were pretty much driven back into something like slavery by a north - south compact, that allowed former slave states to criminalize black life, which made a criminal force that was basically used as a forced labor force, up until the 1930s.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

topic: War, Labor Force, Rights, Compact, Personal Rights

Former New York Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, former Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, talk show Rush Limbaugh claim - " don't you love that, they "claim." I'm not claiming anything. I'm saying. Anyway. " - that Black Lives Matter exacerbates tensions and sows racial divides." How can that even be debatable?

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: New York, Alaska, Black, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

I don't agree with the Black Lives Matter organizers. They are stated as anti-capitalists. And it's much more than just the police to them. It's about changing society entirely.

- Glenn Beck

source: "Glenn Beck Speaks At Conservative Blog 'RedState' Gathering". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. August 13, 2016.

topic: Police, Black, Matter, Organizer, Black Lives

Hate speech it seems to be is been defined by the political left as anything we don't like, anything that violates social justice doctrines, feminism, Black Lives Matter kind of ideology. It is not something that I have ever heard particularly effectively defined.

- Milo Yiannopoulos

topic: Hate, Justice, Political, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening today with mass incarceration, directed largely against black males.

- Noam Chomsky

source: "Chomsky: "The Business Elites ... Are Instinctive Marxists"". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.truth-out.org. November 19, 2010.

topic: Black, Males, United States, Mass Incarceration, Incarceration

Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.

- Mos Def

topic: Reflection, Jamaica, Two, Marley, Black Lives

Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished.

- Charles Bartlett Johnson

topic: Real, Vision, Black, Kaleidoscope, Black Lives

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

- August Wilson

topic: Writing, Ideas, America, Black Lives

Like books and black lives - albums still matter. Tonight and always.

- Prince

topic: Book, Black, Tonight, Black Lives

I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by life: Asian life, European life, certainly black life. My plays are about love, honor, duty, betrayal - things humans have written about since the beginning of time.

- August Wilson

topic: Betrayal, Play, Ideas, Black Lives

In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the categories of race and class as they affected the formation of African American identity. Leslie Harris has made a major contribution to our understanding of the black experience.

- Eric Foner

topic: New York, Race, Class, Leslie, American Identity

Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was. And the Democrat Party and the black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide.

- E.W. Jackson

source: "Virginia Republicans nominate Tea Party favorite for lieutenant governor" by Adam Gabbatt, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2013.

topic: Party, Rights, Kkk, Black Lives

Our society is driven today by so much ethnic discord. We have Black Lives Matter, which I praise and celebrate. We have the demagogues stereotyping Muslims and resurrecting racist stereotypes they used to visit on us. The larger goal is to show that we are all the same, we all come from Africa, and we all have the same larger family tree. It's about the fundamental unity of the human community.

- Henry Louis Gates

source: "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

topic: Goal, Community, Tree, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.

- Ari Shapiro

source: "South Carolina Democratic Chair On How Candidates Can Appeal To Black Voters". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. February 11, 2016.

topic: Rights, Issues, Police, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

I think the way the country has changed in part because of the presidency of Barack Obama, I think in part because of what we`ve - the violence that we have seen on our cell phones and our TV sets over the last couple of years. I think Black Lives Matter has helped to force these issues. Women like Sabrina Fulton. We`re having a different conversation in this country right now about race and what it means to really understand your experience is and my experience is.

- Killer Mike

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Country, Couple, Mean, Sabrina, Black Lives

You know, I had a new kind of thought on Black Lives Matter and the All Lives Matter thing. And the best way to explain it is if we're all sitting around at a table having dinner, and everybody gets pie except for you and you say, my pie matters, I don't have pie, and everybody at the table looks at you and says, I know, all pie matters, it shows that the people at the table aren't really listening.

- Glenn Beck

source: "Glenn Beck Speaks At Conservative Blog 'RedState' Gathering". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. August 13, 2016.

topic: Pie, People, Listening, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

Black lives matter. White lives matter. Asian lives matter. Hispanic lives matter. That's anti-American and it's racist.

- Rudy Giuliani

source: "Face the Nation transcripts July 10, 2016: Rawlings, Johnson, Bratton, Brooks, Cummings, Giuliani". "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. July 10, 2016.

topic: White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, Anti-american

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

- Rudy Giuliani

source: "Dallas shootings: Policing, race in America and Black Lives Matter". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. July 11, 2016.

topic: Black, Racist, Matter, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter

I think ['March'] is not just for the Black Lives Matter movement. It's for everyone. We all have to understand what happened then, so we can understand what's happening now.

- Andrew Aydin

topic: Thinking, Black, Movement, Black Lives, Black Lives Matter