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" Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously. "

" I think Twitter is an incredible platform. I want to see it succeed. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Baltimore is a beautiful city. I started doing a lot of community organizing back in 1999 and met so many great people in neighborhoods all across the city. And that was an invaluable experience. "

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

" 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. "

" People often confuse visibility with a lot of other things. Sometimes I become a proxy for things that just aren't true about me. People will say, 'DeRay got millions of dollars in grants.' That's just not true... I'm broke. "

" I'm not ashamed to be gay. "

" 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. "

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

" Systemic change rarely comes overnight. "

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

" The arts scene in Baltimore is really rich and very vibrant. It's one of the untold stories of the city. "

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

" 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. "

" I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face. "

" Social media allowed us to become our own storytellers. With it, we seized the power of our truth. "