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Black Lives Matter Quotes
1. Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
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2. You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
โCause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
โCause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Digginโ in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, Iโll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of historyโs shame
I rise
Up from a past thatโs rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak thatโs wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
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3. I canโt make people not afraid of black people. I donโt know whatโs going on. I canโt explain whatโs happening in your head. But maybe if I show up every day as a human, a good human, doing wonderful things, loving my family, loving your kids, taking care of things that I care aboutโmaybe, just maybe that work will pick away at the scabs of your discrimination. Maybe that slowly will unravel it. Thatโs all we have, because we canโt do it for them, because theyโre broken. Their brokenness in how they see us is a reflection of this brokenness. And you canโt fix that. All you can do is the work.
Tags: Black Lives Matter | Discrimination | Racism |
4. No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.
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5. The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
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6. There are very few African American men in this country who havenโt had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me. There are very few African American men who havenโt had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to meโat least before I was a senator.
Tags: Black Lives Matter | Discrimination | Judgemental |
7. Protest is not the end of progress, it is the beginning. I wonder what would happen if all the big companies and celebrities who have showed support on social media came out and used their platform to let activists and protesters speak and be seen? I wonder what would happen if we allowed the outrage to have positive influence in our local government? What would happen if those in power defunded the police & dismantled their racist culture and corrupt power structures? Cities are burning, are you watching? I stand with Minneapolis. I believe in us. Change is gonna come.
- Lizzo
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8. The very serious function of racismโฆis distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isnโt shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says that you have no art so you dredge that up. Somebody says that you have no kingdoms and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary.
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9. When the color of your skin is seen as a weapon, you will never be seen as UNARMED!
Tags: Black Lives Matter | Racism | Political |
10. People say that slaves were taken from Africa.
This is not true.
People were taken from Africa and made into slaves.
Tags: Black Lives Matter | Slave | Africa | Racism |