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" 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. "

DeRay Mckesson

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" I have a big following on Twitter, and Twitter has been invaluable for mobilizing and quickly sharing information. But I'm not really sure that people are learning deep content on Twitter. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I just couldn't believe that the police would fire tear gas into what had been a peaceful protest. I was running around, face burning, and nothing I saw looked like America to me. "

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

DeRay Mckesson

Change

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" We question these issues of race and struggle and white privilege because we know that those issues are real and because those issues have real implications in black communities. And white supremacy is not only dangerous, but it is deadly. "

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

DeRay Mckesson

Complex

" 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? "

" 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

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

DeRay Mckesson

Student

New

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

DeRay Mckesson

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

DeRay Mckesson

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