Alicia Garza : (4)

" It’s hard to be a leader when you have to make hard choices and when you have to do what’s right, even though people are not going to like you for it. " - Alicia Garza

" 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

" 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

" 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. " - Alicia Garza