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I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.

- Alicia Garza
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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.

It's actually OK to be unique and have your own contributions, to celebrate what it means to be black, how we've survived and thrived through the worst conditions possible.

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.

The Black Lives Matter movement has to, by its very nature, be intersectional because of the complexities of who black people are in this country and throughout the world.

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.

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 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.

I think that building political power has to come from the outside and from within. Meaning, we have to build political alternatives to the existing system, and we have to try to impact what is happening in the existing system.

The police are not taking accountability for the violence that they enact in our communities, and yet there isn't as much outrage about that as there is about some broken windows and lost property.

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I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.

I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.

I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.

I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.

I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.

I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.

I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.

I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.

I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.

I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.

I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.

I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.

I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.

I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.

I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.