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" I think about all of my students who were math-phobic, who didn't believe they could learn math, who didn't understand, who didn't think they were smart enough, and by the end, they understood that they already had the gifts, and my job was to help them access them, and I believe that. "

DeRay Mckesson

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" There are people who have demonstrated their willingness to challenge systems and structures, and then when it comes to elections, some of those same people - I don't know where their fight went. What's interesting to me is to see people lose the revolution when it comes to elections. "

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Fight

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

" 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 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. "

" I've worked in two public school districts, Minneapolis and Baltimore, one as a senior leader. And while we might not always have agreed with the union, and we might have had deep differences, they came to the table. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think about Twitter as the friend that's always awake. It's why I tweet so much. "

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

" 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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Honest

World

" 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. "

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Bad

Want

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

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Complex

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

" I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously. "

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Seriously

Portray

" I'm not desensitized to death. "

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Death

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

" My father and mother deeply loved me and my sister. "

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Father

Loved

" 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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Time

People

" I'm a black, gay man, and I should be able to live in a world where I'm able to live in the complexity of my identity in a way that is safe and secure, like everyone else. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "