DeRay Mckesson Quotes

When I was 19 or 20, the way I was an activist was by regularly meeting with groups, going to protests, and being there on the ground.

Activism is wasteful.

Activism in the street is truth-telling, and organizing is talking to people for a specific goal.

One doesn't have to be an activist and start a movement.

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation.

We are at the point where we can mobilize all of this righteous indignation into a powerful mass movement.

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

You don't need role models to be part of a social movement as long as you care about the issues.

Whether you want to do a letter-writing campaign or a march or start a social media hashtag - whatever it is - know that there are people out there that are thinking exactly like you're thinking and are also afraid to take that next and very important step.

I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change, just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face.

To do peace, you must get up off your apathy.

Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

I'm a proud member of the rabble.

When you are a people's movement, you have one thing. Your only asset is people. And you have to deal with real people. Not the people of your imagination. Not the people you wish people would be. But people as they exist actually out there in the real world.

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself in that. I lived with the illusion, for quite a long time, that if you described something accurately, something would be done about it.

For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.