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

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" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" I think people are uncomfortable talking about the racist history of this country and what we need to do to undo the impact of racism. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" What we choose to do today and tomorrow will shape our future and build our reality. "

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

" 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. "

" I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on the west side and then worked in two public school districts, in Baltimore and Minneapolis. "

" When I reflect on the Colbert interview, it moved so quickly that what we didn't do was define white privilege, and I wish we had done that. White privilege is the benefit resulting from white being seen as the standard, regardless of gender and income. "

" There is nothing romantic about teargas. Or smoke bombs or rubber bullets or sound cannons. "

" 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. "

" The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence. "

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

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