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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. "

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" When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Some people are more interested in fighting than winning. "

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

" 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? "

" I think people who are not from here think the Inner Harbor is the only center for culture or fun in the city, and there's so much more to Baltimore. The Harbor's a beautiful place, but there are so many gems embedded in other communities that don't get as much visibility. "

" 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. "

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

" It's important to acknowledge the danger when we provide an academic venue for racism. It's interesting to hear people push the, quote, 'free speech' narrative in this way. They deny the speech of the people who disagree. "

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

" Too often, the elected individuals we put our public trust in disappoint us. "

" What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People like to act like we don't have a legacy of racism here. I think people get really uncomfortable with it. We know that we can't change it unless we address that. "

" Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn. "

" 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. "

" People often confuse visibility with a lot of other things. Sometimes I become a proxy for things that just aren't true about me. People will say, 'DeRay got millions of dollars in grants.' That's just not true... I'm broke. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Social media allowed us to become our own storytellers. With it, we seized the power of our truth. "

" I think that Silicon Valley and technology can play a huge role in redefining what community looks like and how people come together and what authentic relationships look like, but that is not only their burden. "

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

" Laws on hate speech and hate crimes do important work in a world that has been rooted in racism and bigotry since the inception of this country, which was not founded on ideals of justice. "

" It is one thing to talk about fundraising and another to do it as a candidate, and I have learned so much about how much money it costs to run a campaign and what it means to raise money. "

" Protest is political. It is as political as what our conception of America is. "