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The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve.
— DeRay Mckesson
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.
— DeRay Mckesson
I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.
— DeRay Mckesson
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.
— DeRay Mckesson
I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence.
— DeRay Mckesson
Social media allowed us to become our own storytellers. With it, we seized the power of our truth.
— DeRay Mckesson
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.
— DeRay Mckesson
I have a platform, and I can help. I can be in spaces that reporters will never be in because I'm a protester.
— DeRay Mckesson
The student newspapers are as important to me as the 'New York Times.'
— DeRay Mckesson
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.
— DeRay Mckesson
I'm not desensitized to death.
— DeRay Mckesson
You're not born woke. Something wakes you up.
— DeRay Mckesson
I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am.
— DeRay Mckesson
Too often, the elected individuals we put our public trust in disappoint us.
— DeRay Mckesson
I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.
— DeRay Mckesson
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.
— DeRay Mckesson
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?
— DeRay Mckesson
I've never been a surrogate for Bernie, Hillary, or the DNC.
— DeRay Mckesson
Find an issue that's important to you, and be as curious and close to it as possible.
— DeRay Mckesson
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?
— DeRay Mckesson
We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time.
— DeRay Mckesson
There are very few things that I don't talk about - even my relationships.
— DeRay Mckesson
Expressing and loving myself is often so much more complex than 'out' affords me.
— DeRay Mckesson
Baltimore is a city of possibility, and we've got to challenge the traditional pathways of politics and politicians who lay those paths.
— DeRay Mckesson
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.
— DeRay Mckesson
I'm not convinced that stealing an iPhone is a felony or stealing a bike is a felony.
— DeRay Mckesson
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.
— DeRay Mckesson
I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on the west side and then worked in two public school districts, in Baltimore and Minneapolis.
— DeRay Mckesson
Some people are more interested in fighting than winning.
— DeRay Mckesson
Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all.
— DeRay Mckesson
I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.
— DeRay Mckesson
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.
— DeRay Mckesson
You are enough to start a movement. Individual people can come together around things that they know are unjust. And they can spark change.
— DeRay Mckesson
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.
— DeRay Mckesson
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.
— DeRay Mckesson
I think that I, because of student government and because of working in Baltimore, knew how to be creative with very little resources.
— DeRay Mckesson
Sometimes, the hate that I endure is not necessarily about me but about the space I'm in.
— DeRay Mckesson
When I tweet, I'm mostly preaching to the choir.
— DeRay Mckesson
I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously.
— DeRay Mckesson
People are not as imaginative as they think they are.
— DeRay Mckesson
Protest is political. It is as political as what our conception of America is.
— DeRay Mckesson
What we choose to do today and tomorrow will shape our future and build our reality.
— DeRay Mckesson
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
I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it.
— DeRay Mckesson
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.
— DeRay Mckesson
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.
— DeRay Mckesson
I think hope is the belief that tomorrow can be better than today, and I don't lose hope.
— DeRay Mckesson
Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal.
— DeRay Mckesson
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.
— DeRay Mckesson
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.
— DeRay Mckesson
I'm not ashamed to be gay.
— DeRay Mckesson
It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists.
— DeRay Mckesson
There is nothing romantic about teargas. Or smoke bombs or rubber bullets or sound cannons.
— DeRay Mckesson
I am often asked what it is like to be on the 'front line.' But I do not use the term 'front line' to describe us, the protesters. Because everywhere in America, wherever we are, our blackness puts us in close proximity to police violence.
— DeRay Mckesson
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.
— DeRay Mckesson
Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn.
— DeRay Mckesson
As a protester, I protested because I had to, not because it was exciting. I don't want to get tear-gassed again.
— DeRay Mckesson
The history of blackness is also a history of erasure.
— DeRay Mckesson
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.
— DeRay Mckesson
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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