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Just like we don't live in a two-dimensional world, we don't live two-dimensional lives.
~ Alicia Garza
Just
Like
Live
Lives
World
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My definition of feminism is a social, political, economic system by which all genders are valued, respected, and can live dignified lives.
~ Alicia Garza
Definition
Dignified
Economic
Economic System
Feminism
Live
Lives
Political
Respected
Social
System
Valued
Which
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My mom has this thing where she doesn't sugarcoat stuff.
~ Alicia Garza
Mom
She
Stuff
Thing
Where
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One of the beautiful things about a movement is that there are many strategies and many tactics contained within it. Not every participant in a movement is required to do exactly the same things.
~ Alicia Garza
About
Beautiful
Beautiful Things
Contained
Every
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Many
Movement
Participant
Required
Same
Same Things
Strategies
Tactics
Things
Within
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People think that we're engaged with identity politics. The truth is that we're doing what the labor movement has always done - organizing people who are at the bottom.
~ Alicia Garza
Always
Bottom
Doing
Done
Engaged
Identity
Labor
Labor Movement
Movement
Organizing
People
Politics
Think
Truth
Truth Is
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Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe.
~ Alicia Garza
Across
Black
Conditions
Globe
Iceberg
Overall
People
Police
Relates
Tip
Tip Of The Iceberg
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Protest is best used when it's part of a strategy that involves escalating tactics that build pressure on targets.
~ Alicia Garza
Best
Build
Involves
Part
Pressure
Protest
Strategy
Tactics
Targets
Used
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Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.
~ Alicia Garza
Always
Been
Black
Core
Folks
Frankly
Human
Make
Meant
Nation
Quite
Quite Frankly
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Saying 'black lives matter' both literally and figuratively restores people's dignity.
~ Alicia Garza
Black
Both
Dignity
Literally
Lives
Matter
People
Saying
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Sometimes you have to put a wrench in the gears to get people to listen.
~ Alicia Garza
Gears
Get
Listen
People
Put
Sometimes
Wrench
You
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The best advice I ever got as an organizer was that if you can organize your family, you're a good organizer.
~ Alicia Garza
Advice
Best
Ever
Family
Good
Got
Organize
Organizer
You
Your
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The biggest misconception about Black Lives Matter is that BLM is just one entity; Black Lives Matter is an organization and a network. We are a part of the movement, but we are not the movement.
~ Alicia Garza
About
Biggest
Black
Entity
Just
Just One
Lives
Matter
Misconception
Movement
Network
Organization
Part
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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.
~ Alicia Garza
Because
Black
Complexities
Country
Lives
Matter
Movement
Nature
People
Throughout
Very
Who
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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.
~ Alicia Garza
After
Anything
Black
Communities
Elected
People
Photo
Then
Us
Use
Votes
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The demands of the Civil Rights era weren't limited to voting rights - they strove for an end to segregation in all aspects of life, including housing, employment, and public accommodations.
~ Alicia Garza
Aspects
Civil
Civil Rights
Demands
Employment
End
Era
Housing
Including
Life
Limited
Public
Rights
Segregation
Voting
Voting Rights
Were
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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.
~ Alicia Garza
Black
Care
Economy
Enslaved
Families
Forced
History
Legacy
Provide
Rooted
Slavery
The History Of
Unpaid
Were
White
Women
Work
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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
Acquitted
Black
Collective
Did
Everywhere
Family
Feeling
George
Go
Go Home
Grief
His
Home
I Think
Incredible
Lives
Matter
Message
Night
Only
Our
Our Lives
Over
People
Rage
Sent
Think
Verdict
World
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The open source nature of the Internet is both a blessing and a curse, because just as much as we can watch what's happening around the world, we can also be watched.
~ Alicia Garza
Also
Around
Because
Blessing
Both
Curse
Happening
Internet
Just
Just As Much
Much
Nature
Open
Open Source
Source
Watch
Watched
World
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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.
~ Alicia Garza
About
Accountability
Broken
Communities
Enact
Lost
Much
Our
Outrage
Police
Property
Some
Taking
Violence
Windows
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The reality is that race in the United States operates on a spectrum from black to white. Doesn't mean that people who are in between don't experience racism, but it means that the closer you are to white on that spectrum, the better off you are. And the closer to black that you are on that spectrum, the worse off your are.
~ Alicia Garza
Better
Better Off
Between
Black
Closer
Experience
In-Between
Mean
Means
Off
People
Race
Racism
Reality
Spectrum
States
United
United States
White
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Worse
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