Michael Connelly Quotes

With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.

I want to see Black Lives Matter be able to ultimately reduce law enforcement funding.

We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying their salary, who want to be served and protected, who these officers are take an oath to do so.

I think Black Lives Matter has some really thuggish elements in it. Look - at the risk of being incredibly politically incorrect, but I guess that's my job - I think that all lives matter. Not least black lives.

If a brand will shy away from you because you dare to say that black lives matter, that's probably not a brand you want to work with anyway.

Black lives do matter, and our lives do hold value.

I feel like I've built big enough platform and still building my platform for us to get justice for Breonna Taylor.

When we say 'Black Lives Matter,' we're not saying that any other life doesn't matter. That has never, ever been our message. Our message has always been from a place of love.

I get it, cops deal with a lot, but at the same time, we crave justice, and we do want to believe things are going to be all right.

I think what's so powerful about Black Lives Matter is we're the first movement able to take on law enforcement and make it a popular discussion.

I am very happy for all the players doing the Black Lives Matter bend the knee. We are all in the same boat.

The Black Lives Matter movement has spawned all kinds of activism.

You know I think with Black Lives Matter, it is extremely special and important. I definitely feel that.

It's true, black lives do matter. It's not that we're saying no other lives matter.

I'm dedicated to healing the wounds between police and minority communities so both sides feel safe again.

Tamir Rice, Tanisha Anderson, Mya Hall, Walter Scott, Sandra Bland - these names are important. They're inherently important, and the space that #BlackLivesMatter held and continues to hold helped propel the conversation around the state-sanctioned violence they experienced.

The horrific cases in Ferguson, in Staten Island with the death of Eric Garner, and all across the country serve as stark reminders that we must have a say in who polices us, and how that policing is done. We must, we must, let our voices be heard on Election Day.

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

Unlike earlier black-power movements that tried to fight or segregate for self-preservation, Black Lives Matter aligns with the dead, continues the mourning, and refuses the forgetting in front of all of us.

Calling for police reform is not calling for police retribution.

When people of color and their allies say today that Black Lives Matter, the nation must hear and see it through the lens of all that has come before and understand that they speak truth.

We need the cops, especially in the black community.

I think that the dialogue between police officers and the black community has to get better, but not better in a way where, 'Oh, let's talk about it when something horrible happens.' The dialogue has to be going on consistently, every day.

I no longer believe that we can 'fix' the police, as though the police are anything other than a mirror reflecting back to us the true nature of our democracy.

There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.