DeRay Mckesson Quotes
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When I reflect on the Colbert interview, it moved so quickly that what we didn't do was define white privilege, and I wish we had done that. White privilege is the benefit resulting from white being seen as the standard, regardless of gender and income.
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So many of us don't know what we want; we just know we don't want what we have. We spend 99% of the time talking about how bad it is, but only 1% of the time talking about how we can do something about it.
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I think that Silicon Valley and technology can play a huge role in redefining what community looks like and how people come together and what authentic relationships look like, but that is not only their burden.
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My father and mother deeply loved me and my sister.
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I think people are uncomfortable talking about the racist history of this country and what we need to do to undo the impact of racism.
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I'm not ashamed to be gay.
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I think that I, because of student government and because of working in Baltimore, knew how to be creative with very little resources.
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I just couldn't believe that the police would fire tear gas into what had been a peaceful protest. I was running around, face burning, and nothing I saw looked like America to me.
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Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal.
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It will always be important that people continue to push on the system from the outside. It will also be important that people make the changes that we know are necessary on the inside.
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Asking people for money is really different than asking people for their support.
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The student newspapers are as important to me as the 'New York Times.'
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If Trump is president, I think that his administration will do real structural damage that will take years or decades for us to undo.
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I've never been a surrogate for Bernie, Hillary, or the DNC.
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Music helps shape the way people think about the world and act in the world.
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I think about all of my students who were math-phobic, who didn't believe they could learn math, who didn't understand, who didn't think they were smart enough, and by the end, they understood that they already had the gifts, and my job was to help them access them, and I believe that.
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When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public.
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We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time.
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Trump wants to take us back to a time when people like him could abuse others with little to no consequence, when people like him could exploit the labor of others to build vast amounts of wealth, when people like him could create public policy that specifically benefited them while suppressing the rights and social mobility of others.
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Baltimore is a city of possibility, and we've got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths.
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When Trump says, 'Make America great again,' he is referencing an era when people were singled out and harmed because of their race and religious beliefs, and when violent enforcement of Jim Crow masqueraded as the will of the people.
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I grew up in a world of Officer Friendly. It was just the image I had.
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Black people have always been more than our pain. The joy is so much a part of how we have survived and thrived.
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The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve.