'Black Lives Matter' Changed the World, Patrisse Cullors | MAKERS Moment

'Black Lives Matter' Changed the World, Patrisse Cullors | MAKERS Moment

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PATRISSE CULLORS: What we know now is that the women of the civil rights movement and the human rights movement were the architects of that movement. Black Lives Matter comes in, not fully recognizing that we were being seen as a new generation of Black leaders. I really didn't realize we were going to become global leaders, but we did. We all changed the world. Every single one of us, not just the three of us. Co-founders, the people of Ferguson, the people who stood up for Trayvon Martin, for Renisha McBride, for Sandra Bland. Every single chapter across the country and the globe, we set a new precedent around how we fight, and what's acceptable, and what's unacceptable.

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