American - Activist | July 9, 1985 -
Too often, the elected individuals we put our public trust in disappoint us.
DeRay Mckesson
TrustUsOurDisappointPublicToo
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.
GovernmentI AmPeopleCityProblems
I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it.
FreedomImaginationFightThinkYou
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.
TimeTalkingBadKnowWantUs
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?
TimePeopleThinkBe TrueRules
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.
WorkEducationI AmChildCity
I've never been a surrogate for Bernie, Hillary, or the DNC.
NeverBeenSurrogateHillary
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.
LearningPeopleDeepInformationBig
Find an issue that's important to you, and be as curious and close to it as possible.
CuriousYouFindImportantPossible
Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal.
PeopleTalkingOrganizingGoal
We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time.
TimePeopleWorldCreateSingleUp
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.
ManI AmSpaceMeBlackSelf
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