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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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" 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. "

DeRay Mckesson

Problems

Government

I Am

" 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. "

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

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

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

DeRay Mckesson

Student

New

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

" 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. "

" I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change. "

DeRay Mckesson

Change

Goal

" Music helps shape the way people think about the world and act in the world. "

" 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

Fight

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Expressing and loving myself is often so much more complex than 'out' affords me. "

DeRay Mckesson

Complex

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

" The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve. "

" 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. "

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

" If you close your eyes and think about where you feel the most safe, you're probably not going to tell me it's in a room full of police. You feel safe where you're around people that love you, when you have food and shelter, when you're being pushed to be your best self and learn. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists. "

" I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am. "

" Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal. "

" I'm not ashamed to be gay. "

DeRay Mckesson

Gay

Ashamed

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

" You are enough to start a movement. Individual people can come together around things that they know are unjust. And they can spark change. "

" Black people have always been more than our pain. The joy is so much a part of how we have survived and thrived. "

DeRay Mckesson

Always

Black

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

" 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. "

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

DeRay Mckesson

Father

Loved