DeRay Mckesson Quotes
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I think hope is the belief that tomorrow can be better than today, and I don't lose hope.
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I'm not convinced that stealing an iPhone is a felony or stealing a bike is a felony.
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The police, at their best, do three things; they prevent crime, they respond to crime, and they solve crime. In all three of those buckets, they need the trust of the community to do it, so I believe that if we restore the trust that we will change the way police are experiencing communities and ways that will preserve life and make everyone safer.
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I'm not desensitized to death.
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I have a platform, and I can help. I can be in spaces that reporters will never be in because I'm a protester.
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It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists.
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There are very few things that I don't talk about - even my relationships.
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The arts scene in Baltimore is really rich and very vibrant. It's one of the untold stories of the city.
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I think about Twitter as the friend that's always awake. It's why I tweet so much.
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When I tweet, I'm mostly preaching to the choir.
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Systemic change rarely comes overnight.
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I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously.
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Politics is compromise, by its very nature. But we never compromise on our values and beliefs.
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You're not born woke. Something wakes you up.
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I am running to be the 50th mayor of Baltimore in order to usher our city into an era where the government is accountable to its people and is aggressively innovative in how it identifies and solves its problems.
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We question these issues of race and struggle and white privilege because we know that those issues are real and because those issues have real implications in black communities. And white supremacy is not only dangerous, but it is deadly.
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Some people are more interested in fighting than winning.
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I think my imagination about jobs was pretty limited. There were so few jobs that I actually saw people who looked like me in, that I imagined myself in, that I think I just stopped imagining.
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As a protester, I protested because I had to, not because it was exciting. I don't want to get tear-gassed again.
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If anything, any success that I have ever experienced has been because people who didn't have to care about me did, and they pushed me to see things in myself that I did not see in myself at the time.
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I think the reality is that there's a role for everybody to play in the work of social justice and that we have to organize everybody. That means that Silicon Valley has to be organized, the fashion industry has to be organized, the formerly incarcerated have to be organized, the teachers.
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I have a big following on Twitter, and Twitter has been invaluable for mobilizing and quickly sharing information. But I'm not really sure that people are learning deep content on Twitter.
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What we choose to do today and tomorrow will shape our future and build our reality.
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I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.