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

~Deray Mckesson

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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 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

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I'm not convinced that stealing an iPhone is a felony or stealing a bike is a felony.

~Deray Mckesson

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I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on the west side and then worked in two public school districts, in Baltimore and Minneapolis.

~Deray Mckesson

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Skills acquisition is really at the heart of what it means to learn.

~Deray Mckesson

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Some people are more interested in fighting than winning.

~Deray Mckesson

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As a protester, I protested because I had to, not because it was exciting. I don't want to get tear-gassed again.

~Deray Mckesson

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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 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.

~Deray Mckesson

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The history of blackness is also a history of erasure.

~Deray Mckesson

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Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the means to tell the story historically. There were a million slaves, but you see very few slave narratives. And that is intentional.

~Deray Mckesson

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: July 9th, 1985

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