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George Floyd Quotes

There is no vaccine for racism. We’ve got to do the work. For George Floyd; for Breonna Taylor; for the lives of too many others to name. We’ve got to do the work to fulfill that promise of equal justice under law. Because, none of us are free, until all of us are free.

– Kamala Harris

Accepting Democratic Party nomination for Vice President of U.S.

The time for change is now. Change in the name of George Floyd. Change in the name of Ahmaud Arbery. Change in the name of Breonna Taylor. And change in the name of the countless other Black Americans who have died at the hands of hatred and racism.

– Kamala Harris

He was basically lynched in plain sight.

– Van Jones

On police killing of George Floyd.

Talk about America great. Great for who? We’ll make America great for everybody the first time. Never was great for blacks. Never was great for Latinos. Wasn’t great for women.

– Al Sharpton

Baptist minister and civil rights activist at George Floyd memorial service in Minneapolis.

George Floyd’s story has been the story of Black folks. We could never be who we wanted and dreamed to be is you kept your knee on our neck. It’s time for us to stand up in George’s name and say, ‘Get your knee off our necks!’

– Al Sharpton

He was a gentle giant. He was a protector, a provider. Now his name is ringing bells, far away – the Netherlands, Iran, all these places. His death won’t be in vain. George Floyd is going to be the name of change.

– Stephen Jackson

Daddy changed the world.

– Gianna Floyd

Six-year-old daughter of George Floyd, whose killing by Minneapolis police sparked worldwide protests against racism.

A great day for George Floyd quote Donald Trump

Hopefully George is looking down right now and saying, ‘This is a great thing that’s happening for our country.’ This is a great day for him. It’s a great day for everybody.

– Donald Trump

Invoking George Floyd name while talking US job numbers. A new level of stupid for Trump? – Floyd was killed by police officer kneeling on his neck for nine minutes.

The Lamestream Media is doing everything within their power to foment hatred and anarchy. As long as everybody understands what they are doing, that they are FAKE NEWS and truly bad people with a sick agenda, we can easily work through them to GREATNESS!

– Donald Trump

Blaming news media for George Floyd protests.

The Nazi slogan for destroying us…was ‘Divide and Conquer.’ Our American answer is ‘In Union there is Strength.’ We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis – confident that we are better than our politics.

– James Mattis

Former Defense Secretary takes aim at Donald Trump over his response to George Floyd protests.

The only wrong thing to say is to say nothing.

– Meghan Markle

On police killing of George Floyd.

George Floyd’s life mattered and Breonna Taylor’s life mattered and Philando Castile’s life mattered and Tamir Rice’s life mattered…and so did so many other people whose names we know and whose names we do not know.

– Meghan Markle

George Floyd’s last words, ‘I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe,’ they’ve echoed all across this nation, quite frankly around the world. For the president to try to put any other words in the mouth of George Floyd I frankly think is despicable.

– Joe Biden

On Donald Trump invoking Floyd’s name as he took victory lap on unemployment numbers.

The only way to see ourselves in a true light is to listen to the voices of so many who are hurting and grieving. Those who set out to silence those voices do not understand the meaning of America – or how it becomes a better place.

– George W. Bush

On George Floyd protests.

Laura and I are anguished by the brutal suffocation of George Floyd and disturbed by the injustice and fear that suffocate our country…This is not the time for us to lecture. It is time for us to listen.

– George W. Bush

I’ve been extraordinarily concerned about the rhetoric that’s been used by you. It’s been inflammatory, and it’s not okay for that officer to choke George Floyd to death. But we have to call for calm. We have to have police reform called for.

– J. B. Pritzker

Illinois Gov. to President Trump in phone call.

I am outraged. The President just used a Bible, the most sacred text of the Judeo-Christian tradition, and one of the churches of my diocese, without permission, as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus. I just can’t believe what my eyes have seen.

– Mariann Budde

Episcopal Bishop of Washington on Donald Trump’s bible photo op at St. John’s Church and his “incendiary language” during protests at George Floyd’s death.

We will rebuild; buildings can be rebuilt, lives cannot be brought back from the dead.

– Mariann Budde

Episcopal Bishop of Washington on fire damage to St. John’s Church during unrest over killing of George Floyd by police.

If you don’t have something constructive to say, keep your mouth shut because you’re putting men and women in their early 20s at risk.

– Art Acevedo

Houston police chief to US President Trump over call for police to go out and “dominate” during nationwide George Floyd death protests.

It was the other pandemic that we’re far too familiar with here in America, the pandemic of racism and discrimination, that killed George Floyd.

– Benjamin Crump

Floyd tested positive for Covid-19, according to an autopsy.

So America, we proclaim as we memorialize George Floyd: Do not cooperate with evil. Join the young people in the streets protesting against the evil, the inhumane, the torture that they witnessed on that video.

– Benjamin Crump

I see you, and I hear you. I know your pain, your rage, your sense of despair and hopelessness. Justice has, indeed, been denied for far too long. Rioting, looting, and burning is not the way. Organize. Demonstrate. Sit-in. Stand-up. Vote. Be constructive, not destructive. History has proven time and again that non-violent, peaceful protest is the way to achieve the justice and equality that we all deserve.

– John Lewis

Civil rights leader to those protesting killing of George Floyd, police brutality, racism and black inequality.

The reason buildings are burning are not just for our brother George Floyd. They’re burning down because people here in Minnesota are saying to people in New York, to people in California, to people in Memphis, to people across this nation, enough is enough.

– Tamika Mallory

Young people…are enraged. And there’s an easy way to stop it. Arrest the cops. Charge the cops. Charge all the cops. Not just some of them. Not just here in Minneapolis. Charge them in every city across America where our people are being murdered.

– Tamika Mallory

On rioting following death of black man George Floyd.

Big crowd, professionally organized, but nobody came close to breaching the fence. If they had they would have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons.

– Donald Trump

On people in Washington protesting death of George Floyd.

I stand with the protesters and I think all well-meaning Americans stand with the protesters. Enough is enough.

– Andrew Cuomo

Supporting those protesting police brutality and death of George Floyd.

I am the son of an Atlanta police officer…I watched a white police officer assassinate a black man. And I know that tore your heart out.

– Killer Mike

On death of George Floyd.

We don’t want to see Targets burning, we want to see the system that sets up systemic racism, burn to the ground.

– Killer Mike

To Atlanta protesters over George Floyd’s death.

I’m mad as hell. I woke up wanting to see the world burn down. I’m tired of seeing black men die. He casually put his knee on a human being’s neck for nine minutes as he died like a zebra in the clutch of a lion’s jaw.

– Killer Mike

On killing of George Floyd.

It’s so very, very sad because the American people saw an execution, a murder right before our very eyes. It wasn’t self-defense. There has to be justice in that case.

– Nancy Pelosi

On killing of George Floyd.

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