DeRay Mckesson Quotes
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Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the means to tell the story historically. There were a million slaves, but you see very few slave narratives. And that is intentional.
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When I tweet, I'm mostly preaching to the choir.
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People are not as imaginative as they think they are.
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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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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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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 arts scene in Baltimore is really rich and very vibrant. It's one of the untold stories of the city.
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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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Systemic change rarely comes overnight.
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You're not born woke. Something wakes you up.
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I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously.
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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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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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Politics is compromise, by its very nature. But we never compromise on our values and beliefs.
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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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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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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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Social media allowed us to become our own storytellers. With it, we seized the power of our truth.
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I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.