110 Quotes by DeRay Mckesson

Protest is political. It is as political as what our conception of America is.

Laws on hate speech and hate crimes do important work in a world that has been rooted in racism and bigotry since the inception of this country, which was not founded on ideals of justice.

I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am.

People are more afraid of black unity than black rage.

What we choose to do today and tomorrow will shape our future and build our reality.

Too often, the elected individuals we put our public trust in disappoint us.

I think the reality is that there's a role for everybody to play in the work of social justice and that we have to organize everybody. That means that Silicon Valley has to be organized, the fashion industry has to be organized, the formerly incarcerated have to be organized, the teachers.

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.

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.