1. “As long as people can be judged by the color of their skin, the problem is not solved.” ― Oprah Winfrey
2. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
3. “You really want that utopian ideal of what our world could be? You want to be proudly and ACTIVELY anti-racist, more than fearing being called a racist? I want that for you too. If so, then do the work, educate yourself and others stand by us loudly, consistently, FOREVER.” ― Clara Amfo
4. “If you believe in a cause, be willing to stand up for that cause with a million people or by yourself.” ― Otis S. Johnson
5. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ― Maya Angelou
6. “Being a black parent, especially of a black boy, comes with the added bonus of having to protect your child from a country that is out to get him—a country that kills someone that looks like him every 28 hours, a country that will likely imprison him by his mid-thirties if he doesn’t get his high school diploma, a country that is more than twice as likely to suspend him from school than a white classmate.” ― Jazmine Hughes
7. “‘Protect and serve’ does not mean murder a black man who is not resisting arrest by kneeling on his neck for 10 minutes while he’s screaming that he can’t breathe.” ― Ryan Knight
8. “I love blackness, it is stunning, majestic, inspiring but it is also not here to serve non-black people when it suits them via sports, music, hairstyles, entertainment etc. It should be respected in the workplace and shouldn’t be ignored when it’s crying out in fear of being killed.” ― Clara Amfo
9. “We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.” ― Aretha Franklin
10. “In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” ― Angela Davis
11. “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.” ― Robert F. Kennedy
12. “Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.” ― Jackie Robinson
13. “Yeah, there are no more ‘colored’ water fountains, and it’s supposed to be illegal to discriminate, but if I can be forced to sit on the concrete in too-tight cuffs when I’ve done nothing wrong, it’s clear there’s an issue. That things aren’t as equal as folks say they are.” ― Nic Stone
14. “It’s up to all of us — Black, white, everyone — no matter how well-meaning we think we might be, to do the honest, uncomfortable work of rooting it out.” ― Michelle Obama
15. “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” ― W.E.B. Du Bois
16. “The time is always right to do what is right.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
17. “The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be an anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it’s the only way forward.” ― Ijeoma Oluo
18. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
19. “This nation… was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” ― John F. Kennedy
20. “Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” ― Abraham Joshua Heschel
21. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” ― Barack Obama
22. “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.” ― Marian Anderson
23. “Let’s be honest. Black pain, grief and rage are not only dismissed by elected officials, our response to those feelings are also criminalised. To feel is the most fundamental human desire. Yet, we are consistently punished for expressing our feelings and desires.” ― Patrisse Cullors
24. “It is white people’s responsibility to be less fragile; people of color don’t need to twist themselves into knots trying to navigate us as painlessly as possible.” ― Robin DiAngelo
25. “I see and feel everyone’s pain, outrage and frustration. I stand with those who are calling out the ingrained racism and violence toward people of color in our country. We have had enough.” ― Michael Jordan
26. “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” ― Malcolm X
27. “When the color of your skin is seen as a weapon, you will never be seen as unarmed.” ― Unknown
28. “I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.” ― Rosa Parks
29. “When we’re talking about diversity, it’s not a box to check. It is a reality that should be deeply felt and held and valued by all of us.” ― Ava DuVernay
30. “Until the killing of black men, black mothers’ sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother’s sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest.” ― Ella Baker
31. “Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.” ― Coretta Scott King
32. “What the Black lives matter movement is doing is they are making it personal. They are making it hash tagged, exposing the racial injustice that continues to haunt our country in a way that you can’t ignore. There is power in injustice becoming personal.” ― Shane Claiborne
33. “Black history isn’t a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.” ― Karyn Parsons
34. “When it comes to Black Lives Matter, I think what folks that are writing ‘All Lives Matter’ need to understand is that for some people black lives don’t matter at all. So for us, black lives matter. So, while you may have the best intentions in saying, ‘All Lives Matter,’ remember: For some people, black lives don’t matter at all.” ― Ashton Kutcher
35. “If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” ― Moshe Dayan
