Abhimat

“We don’t give young people enough credit for being able to make sense of the world around them, to take things in and let things out, to be shaped and to shape the world around them.”
― DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Sometimes, when you don’t see yourself in the world, you start to think that you don’t exist.”
― DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope

“I am constantly reminding myself that the goal of protest is progress, not simply more protest. Protest, though not the solution, is a precursor to the solution. It creates space that would otherwise not exist, and forces conversations and topics that have been long ignored into the public sphere. It illuminates what our country would rather forget. Protest remains necessary in a country with such ingrained systemic inequity and in which the traditional mechanisms of power have not often benefited marginalized communities without direct pressure.”
― DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope