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Deray Mckesson

Deray Mckesson Quotes

Total quotes: 5

Deray Mckesson

Birthname

Educated At: Bowdoin College

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Activist, Teacher

Total quotes: 5

“People often don’t realize how fragile democracy is until it breaks.”

— Deray Mckesson

Tagged: Democracy

“I am reminded that when untruths go unaddressed for too long, they can become fixed.”

— Deray Mckesson

Tagged: Lies, truths and lies, Acceptance, Culture and Society, Society

“If your love for me requires that I hide parts of who I am, then you don't love me. Love is never a request for silence.”

— Deray Mckesson, via twitter.com

Tagged: Love, Suppression

“A movement is only as strong as its integrity.”

— Deray Mckesson, On Shaun King

Tagged: Shaun King, Black Lives Matter

“Protest is this idea of telling the truth in public, and I’ll never be afraid to tell the truth. What I heard in the jail cell and the conversations we had is that the arrests will not stop people from telling the truth, and that people remain as committed to this work today as they were two days ago and as they were yesterday.”

— Deray Mckesson, Black Lives Matter leader DeRay Mckesson on protests and his arrest Video

Tagged: Black Lives Matter, blacklivesmatter, black lives matter movement, Justice, Inequality, systematic racism

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