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" Black Lives Matter was created as a response to state violence and anti-black racism and a call to action for those who want to fight it and build a world where black lives do, in fact, matter. "
Action
Black
Fight
" Every successful social movement in this country's history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action. "
Change
Tea
Lunch
" How do we stop violence, looting, and riots? The way that we stop that is by making sure that people have the things that they need to thrive. "
Violence
Thrive
Stop
" I don't even know what a hashtag is. You don't turn a hashtag into a movement - people turn things into a movement. "
You
Turn
People
" I'll be honest with you: I think that it's really difficult, this framing around 'good cops' and 'bad cops.' Policing, as a system, is incredibly corrupt, period. "
You
Bad
Difficult
" I need to create an environment where I can be my best self, and that means being unapologetic about saying no to things that don't serve me or move me closer to my purpose and the things that I care about the most. "
Saying
Self
Best
" I think race and racism is probably the most studied social, economic, and political phenomenon in this country, but it's also the least understood. "
Political
Think
Country
" Just like we don't live in a two-dimensional world, we don't live two-dimensional lives. "
Like
Just
World
" My definition of feminism is a social, political, economic system by which all genders are valued, respected, and can live dignified lives. "
Which
System
Political
" People think that we're engaged with identity politics. The truth is that we're doing what the labor movement has always done - organizing people who are at the bottom. "
Truth
Truth Is
Identity
" Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe. "
Police
People
Violence
" Sometimes you have to put a wrench in the gears to get people to listen. "
People
Gears
Listen
" The best advice I ever got as an organizer was that if you can organize your family, you're a good organizer. "
Best
Advice
Family
" The Clintons use black people for votes but then don't do anything for black communities after they're elected. They use us for photo ops. "
Photo
Us
Anything
" The demands of the Civil Rights era weren't limited to voting rights - they strove for an end to segregation in all aspects of life, including housing, employment, and public accommodations. "
Segregation
Voting
Life
" The history of black women in the economy is rooted in the legacy of slavery. Enslaved black women were forced to provide care work, unpaid, for white families. "
Work
History
Legacy
" The open source nature of the Internet is both a blessing and a curse, because just as much as we can watch what's happening around the world, we can also be watched. "
Blessing
World
Watch
" The reality is that race in the United States operates on a spectrum from black to white. Doesn't mean that people who are in between don't experience racism, but it means that the closer you are to white on that spectrum, the better off you are. And the closer to black that you are on that spectrum, the worse off your are. "
Racism
You
Black
" There is hope for humanity, but in order for us to get there, we really have to interrogate not just what it takes to change laws, but what it takes to change culture that supports laws that uplift humanity and also supports laws that serve to denigrate it. "
Us
Humanity
Hope
" Ultimately, policing in and of itself is problematic. "
Ultimately
Policing
Itself
" We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement. "
Conversation
Bullying
Lose
" We can make black lives matter in the labor movement by building the kinds of movements that black women need to shape a new economy and a new democracy that don't force them to choose between making a living and being a part of a healthy democracy. "
Black
Women
Need
" We need the best and the brightest thinkers, strategists, coders, surveillance experts, tech geeks, and disruptors to utilize all of the tools we have available to us to build the world that we want to see. A world where black lives matter. A world where all lives matter. "
Best
World
Tools
" We need to make sure that we have an honest, honest conversation and that we engage honest practices around how racism operates in this country. It's not just about people being mean to each other. "
Mean
People
Racism
" We need to make sure we're creating spaces to create new leaders and new types of leadership. "
New
Create
Creating
" We want to see a world where black lives matter in order for us to get to a world where all of our humanity is respected. "
See
World
Want
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