American - Activist | July 9, 1985 -
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
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I wasn't a very good writer before college. I don't think I was a very good reader.
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I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence.
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I have a platform, and I can help. I can be in spaces that reporters will never be in because I'm a protester.
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The student newspapers are as important to me as the 'New York Times.'
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Sometimes, the hate that I endure is not necessarily about me but about the space I'm in.
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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.
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When I tweet, I'm mostly preaching to the choir.
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I'm not desensitized to death.
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I take statements that portray untrue statements about me seriously.
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People are not as imaginative as they think they are.
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Protest is political. It is as political as what our conception of America is.
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