All Lives Matter Quotes

“In order for slavery to work, in order for us to buy, sell, beat, and trade people like animals, Americans had to completely dehumanize slaves. And whether we directly participated in that or were simply a member of a culture that at one time normalized that behavior, it shaped us. We can’t undo that level of dehumanizing in one or two generations. I believe Black Lives Matter is a movement to rehumanize black citizens. All lives matter, but not all lives need to be pulled back into moral inclusion. Not all people were subjected to the psychological process of demonizing and being made less than human so we could justify the inhumane practice of slavery.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness

“Strong people stand up for themselves, but stronger people stand up for others.”
― Suzy Kassem

“If all lives did really matter, black lives matter wouldn't have been born in the first place.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“All lives matter is an intellectual luxury cooked up by closet philosophers, whereas black lives matter is an actual manifestation of the value of life through tangible human actions, which is moulding a world where all lives truly matter, not theoretically, but actually.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“A man is only noble when he has pity on all living creatures.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
― Shenita Etwaroo

“I cannot breathe” is an apparently simple sentence that is being repeated millions of times these days with a new meaning. With every repetition, it reminds us of thousands of pages in the history of racial discrimination.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“You imply a higher value to a life because of a young age. The line, my dear, across which the value of life becomes petty. Where is the line?"
"But a child-"
He held up a cautionary finger. "Do not think to play on my emotions by plying me with the value of the life of a child, as if a higher value can be placed on life because of age. When is a life worth less? Where is the line? At what age? Who decides? All life is of value. Dead is dead, no matter the age.”
― Terry Goodkind, Debt of Bones

“Pennywise the Dancing Clown is every menacing figure you see. But the ones who float, in this apt soliloquy, look mighty similar to me. I don't think we're all Georgie.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“Critics assert that Black Lives Matter is an anti-White terrorist group; the counterargument, "All Lives Matter," is little more than a racist dog whistle that attempts to both delegitimize centuries of claims of global anti-Black oppression and position those who exhibit tremendous pride in their Blackness as enemies of the state. Well, we are enemies of any racist, sexist, classist, xenophobic state that sanctions brutality and murder against marginalized people who deserve to live as free people.”
― Feminista Jones, Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets

“Our hearts are not black or white. Nor are they fat or thin. Our hearts are all the same. Our hearts only beat for love!”
― Avijeet Das

“White racists do not want to define racial hierarchy or policies that yield racial inequities as racist. To do so would be to define their ideas and policies as racist. Instead, they define policies not rigged for White people as racist. Ideas not centering White lives are racist. Beleaguered White racists who can’t imagine their lives not being the focus of any movement respond to “Black Lives Matter” with “All Lives Matter.” Embattled police officers who can’t imagine losing their right to racially profile and brutalize respond with “Blue Lives Matter.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Intellectually just saying "all lives matter", you may feel very good about yourself, you may feel, "I am so profound, I go beyond what people are able to see", but actually you do not see anything, you don't see the basic issues that people face, you don't see the ground-level problems that people face, you don't see the regular hate that people face, in their everyday walk of life, you are just a closet philosopher who loves to feel good in glorifying the indifference of the society.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Happy wives matter.”
― THIGHBRUSH

“Amidst the illusive fog of color and geography,
When did humanity cease mattering most!
Sentiments and dreams have no borders,
Character isn't exclusive to any single coast.”
― Abhijit Naskar, No Foreigner Only Family

“It is everyone’s right to live in a society based on justice and to benefit from its advantages.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Apartheid continues to thrive with the same strength but in a different form, and this puts a heavier burden on the shoulders of those who wish to fight against Apartheid types of injustice.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Though Apartheid policies were officially rescinded in South Africa, the Apartheid mentality and various other forms of racial discrimination still thrive in the world.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“It is so sad to see. That you are threaten by someone who is living their life, because they are different than you. The fact that you don't understand them. It doesn't mean you should kill them. What have they done to you , That makes you think . They don't deserve to live. They are not the problem, but it is you having problems with them, because of your insecurities.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“It is so sad to see. That you are threaten by someone who is living their life, because they are different from you. The fact that you don't understand them. It doesn't mean you should kill them. What have they done to you , that makes you think . They don't deserve to live. They are not the problem, but it is you having problems with them, because of your Insecurities. Every person has a right to live.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“This is how we make all lives matter (The Sonnet)

Wherever a black life is shot of suspicion,
I am that black life that didn't matter.
Wherever a woman is forced to remain pregnant,
I am that woman who doesn't matter.
Wherever a muslim is presumed terrorist,
I am that muslim who doesn't matter.
Wherever a queer life is persecuted,
I am that queer who doesn't matter.
Standing up to cannibalism requires,
No exclusive background and identity.
All that matters is that you are human,
Only requirement of justice is humanity.
This is how we make all lives matter, all lives free.
Injustice on anyone anywhere is injustice on me.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting