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" I'm not desensitized to death. "
DeRay Mckesson
Death
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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 wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader. "
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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. "
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" 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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" 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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" I'm not ashamed to be gay. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Table
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Got
Information
" Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn. "
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" Find an issue that's important to you, and be as curious and close to it as possible. "
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You
Possible
" 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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" 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? "
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" 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. "
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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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Paths
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
" 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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Heard
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" When I tweet, I'm mostly preaching to the choir. "
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" 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. "
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" The student newspapers are as important to me as the 'New York Times.' "
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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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" 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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" I will never forget the first time I was teargassed or the night I hid under my steering wheel as the SWAT vehicle drove down a residential street. I will never forget that it was illegal - in St Louis, in the fall of 2014 - to stand still. "
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" I think people who are not from here think the Inner Harbor is the only center for culture or fun in the city, and there's so much more to Baltimore. The Harbor's a beautiful place, but there are so many gems embedded in other communities that don't get as much visibility. "
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" It will always be important that people continue to push on the system from the outside. It will also be important that people make the changes that we know are necessary on the inside. "
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" I think about Twitter as the friend that's always awake. It's why I tweet so much. "
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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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" I'm not a politician. I'm somebody who knows the world can be better, and I'm willing to fight for it. "
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