We spend more time talking about what’s happening on Twitter than we do talking about what kind of organising people are doing in the cities we live in. Alicia Garza Read Quote
If you’re to look at people’s social networks, not a lot of white people have a social network that has lots of black people – it doesn’t happen. It makes sense to me that online would be as segregated as offline because it’s just mimicking patterns that exist in real life. Alicia Garza Read Quote
What it takes to get people from liking and sharing and retweeting to organising is a hard and long process. Technology has really changed the game in terms of how people participate and what they decide to participate in. Alicia Garza Read Quote
Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it’s meant to make this nation human. Alicia Garza Read Quote
The night that George Zimmerman was acquitted, I think, for black people all over the world, there was a collective feeling of incredible grief and incredible rage. And that verdict not only let George Zimmerman go home to his family, but it sent a message to black people everywhere that our lives did not matter. Alicia Garza Read Quote
I don’t even know what a hashtag is. You don’t turn a hashtag into a movement – people turn things into a movement. Alicia Garza Read Quote
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. Alicia Garza Read Quote
What we’ve seen is an attempt by mainstream politics and politicians to co-opt movements that galvanize people in order for them to move closer to their own goals and objectives. We don’t think that playing a corrupt game is going to bring change and make black lives matter. Alicia Garza Read Quote
It’s not lost on me that every single person who told their story about Harvey Weinstein talked about how they were silenced, how they were encouraged not to speak up, how they were embarrassed or ashamed to speak up. Alicia Garza Read Quote
