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Systemic change rarely comes overnight.

~Deray Mckesson

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I actually get very little phone calls. I get way more tweets and texts. My phone rarely rings.

~Deray Mckesson

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People are more afraid of black unity than black rage.

~Deray Mckesson

Topics: Afraid Black More People Rage Than Unity

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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.

~Deray Mckesson

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The police, at their best, do three things; they prevent crime, they respond to crime, and they solve crime. In all three of those buckets, they need the trust of the community to do it, so I believe that if we restore the trust that we will change the way police are experiencing communities and ways that will preserve life and make everyone safer.

~Deray Mckesson

Topics: Believe Best Change Communities Community Crime Everyone Experiencing Life Make Need Police Preserve Prevent Respond Restore Safer Solve Things Those Three Trust Way Ways Will I Believe I Believe That

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I think about all of my students who were math-phobic, who didn't believe they could learn math, who didn't understand, who didn't think they were smart enough, and by the end, they understood that they already had the gifts, and my job was to help them access them, and I believe that.

~Deray Mckesson

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My father and mother deeply loved me and my sister.

~Deray Mckesson

Topics: Deeply Father Loved Me Mother Sister

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If anything, any success that I have ever experienced has been because people who didn't have to care about me did, and they pushed me to see things in myself that I did not see in myself at the time.

~Deray Mckesson

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It is one thing to talk about fundraising and another to do it as a candidate, and I have learned so much about how much money it costs to run a campaign and what it means to raise money.

~Deray Mckesson

Topics: About Another Campaign Candidate Costs Fundraising How How Much How Much Money Learned Means Money Much One Thing Raise Run Talk Thing I Have Learned

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Asking people for money is really different than asking people for their support.

~Deray Mckesson

Topics: Asking Different Money People Really Support Than

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: July 9th, 1985

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