Black Lives Matter

"Voices on the left, voices on the right... What I’ve not heard is a unanimous commitment to atone for the sins of this country. ... It was an 18-year fight to (make) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s birthday a national holiday. ... Systemic racism can have an ending. Police brutality can have an ending. Economic repression of Black and brown people can have an ending. ... A movement without action is a movement standing still. To those who say they care: Move more than your mouth. ... Black lives do matter. And this is not another digital, viral trend, moment or hashtag. ... Yes, all lives do matter, but they only matter when black lives matter too."

"We now have the conceptual means to engage in discussions, popular discussions, about capitalism... The notion of the prison-industrial complex requires us to understand the globalization of capitalism. Anti-capitalist consciousness helps us to understand the predicament of immigrants, who are barred from the U.S. by the wall that has been created by the current occupant. These conditions have been created by global capitalism. And I think this is a period during which we need to begin that process of popular education, which will allow people to understand the interconnections of racism, heteropatriarchy, capitalism."

"To truly promote confidence in these vaccines, we must start by acknowledging this history of mistreatment and exploitation of minorities by the medical community and the government. But then we need to explain and demonstrate all that has been done to correct and address these wrongs."

"If black lives matter, then it should matter all the time. You should never let somebody get killed. Thats somebodys son, Thats somebodys brother; thats somebodys friend. So you should always keep that in mind."