DeRay Mckesson Quotes
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There will always be a rule. There will be people who break the rules. There will be consequences. We fundamentally think these things will be true for a time. The question becomes, What are the consequences? Who enforces the consequences? What are the worst consequences?
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The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness is the actual end point. And it is not.
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There is nothing romantic about teargas. Or smoke bombs or rubber bullets or sound cannons.
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There are very few things that I don't talk about - even my relationships.
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Twitter is half me trying to live in the world and half me processing and sharing the world. I share a lot, and some of that is to keep me honest.
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I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.
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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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If City Hall started projecting swastikas, no one would say 'You know what? Free speech.' People would say that is wrong.
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A lot of organizers are trying to figure out how do we create entrances for people so they can be involved in the work in a way that makes them feel is aligned to the things they're interested in and not the things the organizer is interested in?
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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'm not convinced that stealing an iPhone is a felony or stealing a bike is a felony.
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I'm not a politician. I'm somebody who knows the world can be better, and I'm willing to fight for it.
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I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously.
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When I tweet, I'm mostly preaching to the choir.
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You're not born woke. Something wakes you up.
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Politics is compromise, by its very nature. But we never compromise on our values and beliefs.
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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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I think about Twitter as the friend that's always awake. It's why I tweet so much.
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What we choose to do today and tomorrow will shape our future and build our reality.
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Some people are more interested in fighting than winning.
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Systemic change rarely comes overnight.
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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 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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As a protester, I protested because I had to, not because it was exciting. I don't want to get tear-gassed again.