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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. "

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" 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. "

" Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Ultimately, policing in and of itself is problematic. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't even know what a hashtag is. You don't turn a hashtag into a movement - people turn things into a movement. "

" The best advice I ever got as an organizer was that if you can organize your family, you're a good organizer. "

" 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. "

" We need to make sure we're creating spaces to create new leaders and new types of leadership. "

" Sometimes you have to put a wrench in the gears to get people to listen. "

" My definition of feminism is a social, political, economic system by which all genders are valued, respected, and can live dignified lives. "

" We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement. "

" 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. "