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Alicia Garza je americká aktivistka za občanská práva a spisovatelka, známá jako spoluzakladatelka mezinárodního hnutí Black Lives Matter. Angažovala se v otázkách zdravotnictví, studentských programů a práv, práv pracujících v domácnosti, ukončení policejní brutality, boje proti rasismu a násilí na transgenderových a genderově nekonformních barevných lidech. Její komentáře publikovaly deníky The Guardian, The Nation, Rolling Stone a Truthout. V současné době řídí speciální projekty v National Domestic Workers Alliance a je ředitelkou Black Futures Lab. Wikipedia  

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“I think there's a few things that we need to be doing. So one is we have to stop treating leaders like superheroes. We are ordinary people attempting to do extraordinary things”

An Interview with the Founders of Black Lives Matter, Ted Talks, https://www.ted.com/talks/alicia_garza_patrisse_cullors_and_opal_tometi_an_interview_with_the_founders_of_black_lives_matter?language=en (October 2016)

“I was impacted in a way that I didn’t expect...We see black death all the time, and I don’t know what it was about this, but I know I went home and then I woke up in the middle of the night crying.”

How the movement that’s changing America was built and where it goes next, By Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/black-lives-matter-jamil-smith-1014442/ (16 June 2020)

“So we know that young people are the present and the future, but what inspires me are older people who are becoming transformed in the service of this movement. I'm inspired by seeing older people step into their own power and leadership and say, "I'm not passing a torch, I'm helping you light the fire."”

An Interview with the Founders of Black Lives Matter, Ted Talks, https://www.ted.com/talks/alicia_garza_patrisse_cullors_and_opal_tometi_an_interview_with_the_founders_of_black_lives_matter?language=en (October 2016)