American - Activist | July 9, 1985 -
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
TimeNightStandNever ForgetFall
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.
CommunityBeautifulGreatExperience
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.
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I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am.
LoveManI AmCityMeMade
I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.
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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?
WorkPeopleFeelTryingCreateWay
You are enough to start a movement. Individual people can come together around things that they know are unjust. And they can spark change.
ChangeTogetherPeopleStartSpark
I grew up in a world of Officer Friendly. It was just the image I had.
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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.
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Some people are more interested in fighting than winning.
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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.
MyselfImaginationPeopleMeThink
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.
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