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" I think Twitter is an incredible platform. I want to see it succeed. "
DeRay Mckesson
Want
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Succeed
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" Baltimore is a city of possibility, and we've got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths. "
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" My father and mother deeply loved me and my sister. "
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" I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously. "
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" A cacophony of whispers is also noise. There are many ways to be heard, and there are many ways to be visible. There are many ways to be seen. "
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" 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. "
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Privilege
" Black people have always been more than our pain. The joy is so much a part of how we have survived and thrived. "
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" Protest is political. It is as political as what our conception of America is. "
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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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Imagination
" 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. "
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Community
Life
" People are not as imaginative as they think they are. "
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" I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am. "
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Love
" If Trump is president, I think that his administration will do real structural damage that will take years or decades for us to undo. "
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Will
Years
" You are enough to start a movement. Individual people can come together around things that they know are unjust. And they can spark change. "
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Start
People
Know
" 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. "
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Great
Community
Experience
" 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. "
DeRay Mckesson
Revolution
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Me
" 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. "
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Believe
Smart
Job
" I think about Twitter as the friend that's always awake. It's why I tweet so much. "
DeRay Mckesson
Think
Always
Awake
" Expressing and loving myself is often so much more complex than 'out' affords me. "
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Me
Complex
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" 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
Me
" Being mayor is about offering a vision for the city, putting the right people in the right place, and executing that vision. "
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Vision
Place
City
" I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy. "
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Joy
Freedom
Justice
" Social media allowed us to become our own storytellers. With it, we seized the power of our truth. "
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Power
Social Media
Own
" 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. "
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Push
Free
Interesting
" I've never been a surrogate for Bernie, Hillary, or the DNC. "
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Never
Surrogate
Been
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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? "
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" 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. "
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Child
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" The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve. "
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Difference
Deserve
Everyone
" Find an issue that's important to you, and be as curious and close to it as possible. "
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You
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