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Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Been Burned Communities Grandmothers Healers Hundreds Hundreds Of Years Since Stake Systematically Targeted Time Whole Witch Years

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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

Topics: After Anything Black Communities Elected People Photo Then Us Use Votes

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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

Topics: About Accountability Broken Communities Enact Lost Much Our Outrage Police Property Some Taking Violence Windows

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Although police terrorism plays a specific role on behalf of the state, it is not the totality of what state violence looks like or feels like in our communities.

~Alicia Garza

Topics: Although Behalf Communities Feels Like Looks Our Plays Police Role Specific State Terrorism Totality Violence

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When we sit and think about what the world needs to looks like in order for black lives to actually matter, there is a debate: What is going to make our communities safe? How do we deal with harm? How do we solve problems that come up in our communities?

~Alicia Garza

Topics: About Actually Black Come Communities Deal Debate Going Harm How Like Lives Looks Make Matter Needs Order Our Problems Safe Sit Solve Think Up World

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Certainly, we have to make sure our police forces do not have weapons of mass destruction with which they can terrorize our communities.

~Alicia Garza

Topics: Certainly Communities Destruction Forces Make Mass Mass Destruction Our Police Sure Weapons Which

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We understand that, in our communities, black trans folk, gender-nonconforming folk, black queer folk, black women, black disabled folk - we have been leading movements for a long time, but we have been erased from the official narrative.

~Alicia Garza

Topics: Been Black Communities Disabled Erased Folk Leading Long Long Time Movements Narrative Official Our Queer Time Understand Women

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Coming out of the 2016 election, there was a few things that became really clear. One, that black people deserve to have vehicles that represent the breadth of our interests. Two, that we really need to do a better job of being able to communicate what conditions and experiences our communities are facing.

~Alicia Garza

Topics: Able Became Being Better Better Job Black Breadth Clear Coming Communicate Communities Conditions Deserve Election Experiences Facing Few Few Things Interests Job Need Our Out People Really Represent Things Two Vehicles

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There has to be a readjustment of resources that is being diverted to police and policing as opposed to community health services, and there certainly has to be control over the police by the communities that they are supposed to protect and serve.

~Alicia Garza

Topics: Being Certainly Communities Community Control Health Opposed Over Police Policing Protect Resources Serve Services Supposed

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I'm very sensitive to the incredibly diverse range of opinions within religious and secular communities, and honestly, I'd appreciate if we focused first on the experiences and dignity of the people.

~Alyson Stoner

Topics: Appreciate Communities Dignity Diverse Experiences First Focused Honestly Incredibly Opinions People Range Religious Secular Sensitive Very Within

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