George Floyd Quotes

“Ignorance does not make you fireproof when the world is burning.”
― Nelou Keramati

“Karens have a best friend - Becky. She's the one who goes with them to talk to the manager and backs them up and remains silent when she calls the cops on black guys she sees in her area. Becky is Karen's tag-team partner and an enabler. Don't be a Becky.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Let our stand be together, shoulder to shoulder, hold hands with every human of every color, because together we rise and we shall stand with justice & power forever so we can breath in peace.”
― F.M. Sogamiah

“George Floyd’s death may have compelled you to post a black image on your social-media accounts but what it should really have done is made you question yourself and find within you those dark places where intolerance might be hiding for who among us can stand tall and proclaim that they have never been prejudiced towards a certain ethnicity, gender, colour or faith?”
― Aysha Taryam

“My mama told me to be careful and not get into trouble. I got in trouble, but it was good trouble.
John Lewis
Dedication in Anarchist, Republican... Assassin”
― Jeffrey Rasley, Anarchist, Republican... Assassin: a political novel

“BLACK ISN'T JUST A HUE IT'S A HUEMAN”
― Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

“George Floyd’s pleas awakened this world that has been rendered comatose by fear of contagion and all of a sudden nothing mattered but justice.”
― Aysha Taryam

“Racism is all over the world but the justice is nowhere”
― Areena Nadeem

“The death of George Floyd has been used as a catalyst. It was the kind of “event” for which the aforesaid revolutionary formation (Black Lives Matter) was created. Now, Black Lives Matter has become a power in its own right.

It is only the ignorance of the many, and the “fog of war,” that makes the casual observer dubious as to authorship of the present insurrection. For those who have not studied communist tactics, further shocks are in store. The existing political system failed to support the thin blue line, and that line is crumbling. The communists are winning.”
― J.R. Nyquist

“In the midst of a national reckoning on race relations in America something extraordinary is happening. We are building a winning edge against divisiveness and racism by standing up for what is right and showing that we are braver and stronger together. ”
― Germany Kent

“It is not only my heart that is heavy-laden, but the hearts and minds of so many who have been burdened by the tragedies, bloodshed, and woes of our time.”
― Asa Don Brown

“I woke to the news you were dead.
The what arrived before daylight;

the how was agony unfolding as I
dreaded my way to dusk. Unfolding

against my want not to know
(but I already knew, have known

since I could know): officers, arrest,

Black, man, twenty, video, knee,

sir, back, dollar, 8, counterfeit,
hands, sorry, 46, mama, please,

breathe, please! Were you tired
George? I feel tired sometimes.

America on my neck--my
lungs compressed so much

they can't expand/contract--”
― Michael Kleber-Diggs, Worldly Things

“We let it slide,
turned our eyes inside-blind
when you made our little sister cry
burnt tears,
blood, we let it slide
when you held our brother
by the throat
until he choked
out
and died.
We let it slide
when we finally tried
to make a sound but
you had each other’s back
and lied.
We let it slide.
Even now
we let it slide.”
― Roy Duffield, Bacchus Against the Wall

“Police employing video propagandists has become more common after the murder of George Floyd.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“If one views police as sophisticated agents who have effectively infiltrated and repressed progressive social movements for 150 years, then their violence and spying on 2020 protesters cannot be mystified as anomalous or the result of a lack of "preparation," "training," or "resources." And you can see the obfuscation in one of the most glaring omissions in the articles: they make no acknowledgment that police committed many thousands of intentional crimes. If the news acknowledged those acts as crimes, it would have to turn a piece about a lack of "training" into one about why police, prosecutors, and federal authorities in virtually every city largely chose to ignore those crimes. And what would that story get people thinking about?”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“BLACK LOVE LIVES IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THIS HATE

#HOPENATION”
― Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

“Pigmentation is not an indication for incarceration and because black or fifty shades of brown complexions can never be a justification for hate or injustice.”
― Aysha Taryam

“The journey into a colour-blind heart is a long one but it is one we must endure so as not to allow injustice to continue through our children and into the future.”
― Aysha Taryam

“When you challange someone’s spirit, he forgets he has a body.”
― Saroj Aryal

“I’m not a mother, but when George Floyd called out for his Mama,
I heard him.
May 25, 2020”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“He faces life in prison and the violent hostility of other prisoners. Jack Blair still believes love is the answer.”
― Jeffrey Rasley, Anarchist, Republican... Assassin: a political novel

“The President held up a Bible, an assassin aimed a gun. What happened next?”
― Jeffrey Rasley

“The news affected Senderovsky more than it did the others. He watched the video footage of the Midwestern murder-by-cop over and over while he was on the toilet locked in the upstairs bathroom. He memorized the scene. The ugly institutional shoes, the ugly institutional pants, the baton and flashlight and walkie-talkie, the upturned sunglasses worn high over the buzz cut, and beneath all that brute institutional force, a dying man crying out the last word that was likely also his first, those two repeating syllables, Ma and Ma. And then he was a man no more, but a lifeless slab hoisted on an institutional gurney, and there was static and instructions and dispatch codes. All of it perfectly commonplace, like an order for Gruyere cheese placed at the local market for curbside pickup.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

“As an immigrant his mission had been simple. He was brought here by his parents to make money off what an important Jewish author had once termed "the American berserk." You came, they laughed at your accent on an urban playground, and then you were given your degrees and guided into battle. By which point, you were just a scab sent in to reinforce the established order. In the video, as the white policeman was draining the air from his Black victim's lungs with his knee, another cop, a Hmong immigrant, stood in front of him in a wide-open stance, daring anyone to come to the dying man's aid. He could have been a Russian, a Korean, a Gujarati. All of us, Senderovsky thought, are in service to an order that has long predated us. All of us have come to feast on this land of bondage. And all of us are useful and expendable in turn.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

“I read about Ahmaud, I said. I read about Breonna.

I don’t say, but I thought it: I know their beloveds’ wail. I know their beloveds’ wail. I know their beloveds wander their pandemic rooms, pass through their sudden ghosts. I know their loss burns their beloveds’ throats like acid. Their families will speak, I thought. Ask for justice. And no one will answer, I thought. I know this story: Trayvon, Tamir, Sandra.

Cuz, I said, I think you told me this story before.

I think I wrote it.”
― Jesmyn Ward

“This is a George Floyd moment for both Israelis
and Palestinians. Actually scratch that.
It’s a George Floyd moment for both Americans
who sympathize with Israel and Americans
who sympathize with Palestinians. It’s a holy fuck
moment for anyone who cares about human life.
Upstairs the bathtub is filling with blood.
How big would the swimming pool have to be
to hold all the red salty stuff spilled the last week?
Who will recline in the fresh blood bath?
What swimmers will adjust their goggles
and freestyle the miles of blood?”
― Jeffrey McDaniel