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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" Trump wants to take us back to a time when people like him could abuse others with little to no consequence, when people like him could exploit the labor of others to build vast amounts of wealth, when people like him could create public policy that specifically benefited them while suppressing the rights and social mobility of others. "

" Baltimore is a city of possibility, and we've got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Systemic change rarely comes overnight. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

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