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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. "

DeRay Mckesson

Problems

Government

I Am

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" 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. "

" People are more afraid of black unity than black rage. "

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" 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. "

" The arts scene in Baltimore is really rich and very vibrant. It's one of the untold stories of the city. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm not desensitized to death. "

DeRay Mckesson

Death

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I've never been a surrogate for Bernie, Hillary, or the DNC. "

" Systemic change rarely comes overnight. "

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

" I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

DeRay Mckesson

Honest

World

" 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. "

" So many of us don't know what we want; we just know we don't want what we have. We spend 99% of the time talking about how bad it is, but only 1% of the time talking about how we can do something about it. "

DeRay Mckesson

Bad

Want

" We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time. "

" When Trump says, 'Make America great again,' he is referencing an era when people were singled out and harmed because of their race and religious beliefs, and when violent enforcement of Jim Crow masqueraded as the will of the people. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm not a politician. I'm somebody who knows the world can be better, and I'm willing to fight for it. "