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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. "
DeRay Mckesson
Talk
Money
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" I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it. "
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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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" 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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" I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence. "
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" I'm not convinced that stealing an iPhone is a felony or stealing a bike is a felony. "
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" 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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" What we choose to do today and tomorrow will shape our future and build our reality. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" I'm not desensitized to death. "
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" It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists. "
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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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" Expressing and loving myself is often so much more complex than 'out' affords me. "
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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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" 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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" Music helps shape the way people think about the world and act in the world. "
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" 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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" Sometimes, the hate that I endure is not necessarily about me but about the space I'm in. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am. "
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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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