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All Quotes by author - DeRay Mckesson

" A cacophony of whispers is also noise. There are many ways to be heard, and there are many ways to be visible. There are many ways to be seen. "

" Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal. "

" 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? "

" As a gay black man, it's important to me to show up - that I'm able to show up as my whole self, in every space that I'm in, because that's how I'm able to be the most true to who I am. "

" As a protester, I protested because I had to, not because it was exciting. I don't want to get tear-gassed again. "

" Asking people for money is really different than asking people for their support. "

" Baltimore is a beautiful city. I started doing a lot of community organizing back in 1999 and met so many great people in neighborhoods all across the city. And that was an invaluable experience. "

" Baltimore is a city of possibility, and we've got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths. "

" Being mayor is about offering a vision for the city, putting the right people in the right place, and executing that vision. "

" Black people have always been more than our pain. The joy is so much a part of how we have survived and thrived. "

" Bowdoin was the first place that I fell in love with. When I visited, I just had never been to a place with that many resources and that much access to information. That was stuff that you saw in movies. I didn't know that existed in real life. "

" 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. "

" Expressing and loving myself is often so much more complex than 'out' affords me. "

" Find an issue that's important to you, and be as curious and close to it as possible. "

" For our kids to go to school, they must be alive, and for adults to work, they must not be in jail. "

" I actually get very little phone calls. I get way more tweets and texts. My phone rarely rings. "

" I am excited to return to city schools... and to continue doing the work to ensure that every child in Baltimore City receives a world-class education. "

" I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change. "

" I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face. "

" I am often asked what it is like to be on the 'front line.' But I do not use the term 'front line' to describe us, the protesters. Because everywhere in America, wherever we are, our blackness puts us in close proximity to police violence. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If City Hall started projecting swastikas, no one would say 'You know what? Free speech.' People would say that is wrong. "

" If Trump is president, I think that his administration will do real structural damage that will take years or decades for us to undo. "

" If you close your eyes and think about where you feel the most safe, you're probably not going to tell me it's in a room full of police. You feel safe where you're around people that love you, when you have food and shelter, when you're being pushed to be your best self and learn. "

" I grew up in a world of Officer Friendly. It was just the image I had. "

" 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. "

" I have a platform, and I can help. I can be in spaces that reporters will never be in because I'm a protester. "

" 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. "

" I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am. "

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