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" I've never been a surrogate for Bernie, Hillary, or the DNC. "

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" I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" My father and mother deeply loved me and my sister. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If Trump is president, I think that his administration will do real structural damage that will take years or decades for us to undo. "

" The history of blackness is also a history of erasure. "

" 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. "

" People are not as imaginative as they think they are. "

" 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. "

" For our kids to go to school, they must be alive, and for adults to work, they must not be in jail. "

" I'm not ashamed to be gay. "

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

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

" The student newspapers are as important to me as the 'New York Times.' "

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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. "

" I actually get very little phone calls. I get way more tweets and texts. My phone rarely rings. "

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

" 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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" I'm a black, gay man, and I should be able to live in a world where I'm able to live in the complexity of my identity in a way that is safe and secure, like everyone else. "

" 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. "

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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. "