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Jesse Williams Quotes

Total quotes: 4
“If you have a critique for our resistance then you’d better have an established record, a critique of our oppression.”
— Jesse Williams, Bet Awards Humanitarian Award Acceptance Speech, 2016
Tagged: Black Lives Matter, Equality, Justice, Injustice, America, Structure, foundation, racism
“The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander.”
— Jesse Williams, BET Humanitarian Award Speech via Twitter
Tagged: Brutalization, Inconvenient Truth
“Now, what we’ve been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people every day. So what’s going to happen is we’re going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours.”
— Jesse Williams, Bet Awards Humanitarian Award Acceptance Speech, 2016
Tagged: Black Lives Matter, Equality, Justice, Injustice, America, Structure, foundation, racism
“We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil -- black gold! -- ghettoizing and demeaning our creations and stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit.”
— Jesse Williams, Bet Awards Humanitarian Award Acceptance Speech, 2016
Tagged: Black Lives Matter, Equality, Justice, Injustice, America, Structure, foundation, racism
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