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Patrisse Cullors

American Activist

Born: 1984

Black Fight Life Matter People World

Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony

We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up. Patrisse Cullors

Sad Hurt Give Feel Demoralized Up

Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious rollback of voting rights over the past 50 years, American democracy has, at times, felt like a weird and failed social experiment. Patrisse Cullors

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When you grow up with a significant amount of trauma, you are realizing it as you get older, and you're realizing the ways you can recover from that trauma. The things that I have witnessed and that I have been through, it's going to take a lifetime to undo. Patrisse Cullors

My morning rituals are typical. I wake up yearning for a few extra moments of rest. I express gratitude to a higher power for the breath in my body and the blessings in my life. I shower. I dress. I eat breakfast. I exchange laughter and words with my beloveds, embracing each other as we say our daily goodbyes. Patrisse Cullors

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When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make sure her children - me, my five brothers, and three sisters - could eat and have a safe place to sleep. We hardly saw her. Patrisse Cullors

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Myself and the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, but in truth, we are loving women whose life experiences have led us to seek justice for those victimized by the powerful. Patrisse Cullors

The Internet is the most democratic communication platform in history, largely because we've had network neutrality rules that make sure all web traffic is treated equally, and no voices are discriminated against. Patrisse Cullors

Like any organizer worth their salt, I'm open to critique, but I won't be bullied or treated badly. I'm an imperfect human, and as such, I have a proclivity to make mistakes. And while I make mistakes, I am not my mistakes. Patrisse Cullors

Worth Mistakes Salt Critique Imperfect Open Badly Like Make Am Bullied Any Human While Organizer Treated

We rarely know what motivates somebody in their work, and it's usually a particular moment in their life. For me, that moment is my brother's incarceration and the ways in which this country has decided to neglect, abuse, and sometimes torture people with severe mental illness, especially if they're black. Patrisse Cullors

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I knew marriage was not the answer to changing the conditions for poor, black, queer folks. So I never felt compelled to get married - it just didn't seem important. But even if marriage wasn't right for me at the time, or a quick fix toward black empowerment, I found it repulsive that loving same-sex couples were refused the right. Patrisse Cullors

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In 2013, I helped create a black-centered political will- and movement-building project called #BlackLivesMatter. Patrisse Cullors

Political Will Project Create Helped

The black radical agenda, which pushes us closer to freedom and the agenda to which I subscribe, calls for an eradication of white supremacy and an adoption of values and traditions endowed from the black experience. Patrisse Cullors

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I developed 'Power: From the Mouths of the Occupied' while I was an Artist in Residence at Kalamazoo College. Patrisse Cullors

College Power Developed Occupied Artist Mouths While Residence

Wherever black people are in America, criminalization exists. Wherever there is a white-dominant space, deep racism exists as well - no matter how progressive. If you cut too far into that progressive, if you do something that's too radical, white racism will emerge. Patrisse Cullors

'The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman' is a reminder that people across the world are rebelling against norms and forging new paths for the most marginalized people in their own communities. Patrisse Cullors

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Black Lives Matter has become what black communities all over the world have needed it to become. At times, it is a hashtag; at other moments, it is a declaration, a cry of rage, a sharing of light. It has become a movement that is international, worldwide in its scope of liberation for black and oppressed people everywhere. Patrisse Cullors

People World Light Matter Black Become Rage Other Worldwide Everywhere Liberation Sharing Over Cry Scope Oppressed Times Movement Declaration Communities International Moments Lives Needed

I don't dislike my appearance at all. Patrisse Cullors

Dislike Appearance

I was trained within a black radical tradition that encouraged struggle within our own movements because it sharpens collective analysis - bringing us closer to the tools we need to achieve liberation. Patrisse Cullors

Freedom means the U.S. government not being the main threat to countries around the world. Patrisse Cullors

Government Freedom World Threat Main Freedom Means Countries Around Being Means

I am an abolitionist. What does this mean? Abolitionist resistance and resilience draws from a legacy of black-led anti-colonial struggle in the United States and throughout the Americas, including places like Haiti, the first black republic founded on the principles of anti-colonialism and black liberation. Patrisse Cullors

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Since his inauguration, Trump has signed numerous executive orders that negatively impact poor, black and brown, queer, Muslim, and other communities. Patrisse Cullors

Black Numerous Other Negatively Signed Muslim Impact Brown Since Executive Queer His Trump Orders Poor Inauguration Communities

The Trump administration has done everything in its power to uphold the harsh racist reality we have faced. Patrisse Cullors

Reality Power Everything Harsh Administration Faced Trump Uphold Done

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