"I absolutely think people are concerned with police brutality. Let me make that absolutely clear. We have been fighting and advocating to stop a war on black lives. And that is how we see it—this is a war on black life."
— Black Lives Matter

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Opal Tometi quoted in A Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Explains Why This Time Is Different, By Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker (3 June 2020)