“When you're sitting at home or living at a slower pace and you see that Black folks in your community are attacked, killed, murdered by vigilantes and by the police, you wake up, you rise to action, and you rise quickly.”

—  Opal Tometi

Black Lives Matter Was Always Designed to Be a Global Movement, Vice] (7 July 2020)

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Nigerian–American writer, strategist and community organizer 1984

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