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" When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public. "

DeRay Mckesson

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Student

New

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

DeRay Mckesson

Complex

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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Father

Loved

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

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" 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. "

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Bad

Want

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