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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? "

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

" 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. "

" I think people who are not from here think the Inner Harbor is the only center for culture or fun in the city, and there's so much more to Baltimore. The Harbor's a beautiful place, but there are so many gems embedded in other communities that don't get as much visibility. "

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

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

" I have a platform, and I can help. I can be in spaces that reporters will never be in because I'm a protester. "

" 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. "

" So many of us don't know what we want; we just know we don't want what we have. We spend 99% of the time talking about how bad it is, but only 1% of the time talking about how we can do something about it. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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? "

" Too often, the elected individuals we put our public trust in disappoint us. "

" Systemic change rarely comes overnight. "

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

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

" People are more afraid of black unity than black rage. "

" I'm not a politician. I'm somebody who knows the world can be better, and I'm willing to fight for it. "

" I'm not ashamed to be gay. "

" 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. "

" 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. "