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“People often confuse visibility with a lot of other things. Sometimes I become a proxy for things that just aren't true about me. People will say, 'DeRay got millions of dollars in grants.' That's just not true... I'm broke.”

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

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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…

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For our kids to go to school, they must be alive, and for adults to work, they must not be in jail.

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When our response to all trauma is to call the police, then that gets us into a cycle of perpetuating trauma. Mental health trauma…

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I think that I, because of student government and because of working in Baltimore, knew how to be creative with very little resources.

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Social media allowed us to become our own storytellers. With it, we seized the power of our truth.

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What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

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Donald Trump is dangerous. The truth is that the bigotry and hatred that he speaks have real consequences in people's lives.

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I will never forget the first time I was teargassed or the night I hid under my steering wheel as the SWAT vehicle drove…

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There is nothing romantic about teargas. Or smoke bombs or rubber bullets or sound cannons.

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Most of my life's information is public. I got a text one day from a hacker who texted me all of my credit card…

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When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that…

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