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• ‟ Civility is the recognition that all people have dignity that's inherent to their person, no matter their religion, race, gender, sexuality, or ability.

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• ‟ The valuation of profit over people impedes human rights across much of the world.

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• ‟ Black people, we are fully deserving of the room and space to fully express our humanity. This is what Black Lives Matter is truly about.

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• ‟ I think about issues like climate change, and how six of the 10 worst impacted nations by climate change are actually on the continent of Africa. People are reeling from all sorts of unnatural disasters, displacing them from their ancestral homes and leaving them without a chance at making a decent living.

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• ‟ We know that there are people in our nation, black people, who are systematically being disenfranchised in a number of spheres in our lives.

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• ‟ We must create a committee to address the long-standing discrimination against black people in America.

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• ‟ I have two younger brothers, and I know my parents have spoken to them about driving and interacting with police. They didn't have those conversations with me, but they did have conversations about being exceptional black people.

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• ‟ I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts different communities in different ways but ultimately leaves them undermined and really devalued in our society.

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• ‟ Black Lives Matter is really an affirmation for our people. It's a love note for our people, but it's also a demand. We know that the system was not designed for justice for us.

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• ‟ We deserve to live in a world where there's no impunity, but beyond this question of impunity, there are all these structures that are actually doing a disservice to our people.

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• ‟ Black Lives Matter has been viral, and people are taking it, appropriating it, and using it however they see fit.

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• ‟ What we are oftentimes reminding people of is the fact that the history of police in the U.S. was that they were slave patrols. They were quite literally created in order to capture enslaved Africans.

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