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

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" 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'm not convinced that stealing an iPhone is a felony or stealing a bike is a felony. "

" I will never forget the first time I was teargassed or the night I hid under my steering wheel as the SWAT vehicle drove down a residential street. I will never forget that it was illegal - in St Louis, in the fall of 2014 - to stand still. "

" The first time I was ever impressed with Patagonia as a brand was when they released the 'Don't Buy This Jacket' campaign. That campaign highlighted their understanding of their role in a larger environmental justice space. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are very few things that I don't talk about - even my relationships. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all. "

" You are enough to start a movement. Individual people can come together around things that they know are unjust. And they can spark change. "

" Sometimes, the hate that I endure is not necessarily about me but about the space I'm in. "

" It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists. "

" When I tweet, I'm mostly preaching to the choir. "

" I'm not ashamed to be gay. "

" 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. "

" I think that I, because of student government and because of working in Baltimore, knew how to be creative with very little resources. "

" I think hope is the belief that tomorrow can be better than today, and I don't lose hope. "

" I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy. "

" You're not born woke. Something wakes you up. "

" Most of my life's information is public. I got a text one day from a hacker who texted me all of my credit card information. "

" 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. "

" I think Twitter is an incredible platform. I want to see it succeed. "

" People in power make the path to power. It means that we will always get the same system, and it's one that is not necessarily in the interest of people's lives. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Politics is compromise, by its very nature. But we never compromise on our values and beliefs. "