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

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

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

" People like to act like we don't have a legacy of racism here. I think people get really uncomfortable with it. We know that we can't change it unless we address that. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" What we choose to do today and tomorrow will shape our future and build our reality. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" As a gay black man, it's important to me to show up - that I'm able to show up as my whole self, in every space that I'm in, because that's how I'm able to be the most true to who I am. "

" Some people are more interested in fighting than winning. "

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

" If City Hall started projecting swastikas, no one would say 'You know what? Free speech.' People would say that is wrong. "

" 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. "

" Asking people for money is really different than asking people for their support. "

" 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. "

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

" Being mayor is about offering a vision for the city, putting the right people in the right place, and executing that vision. "

" 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. "

" Bowdoin was the first place that I fell in love with. When I visited, I just had never been to a place with that many resources and that much access to information. That was stuff that you saw in movies. I didn't know that existed in real life. "

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

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

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

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

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