Shaun King

“Conservatives will fight hard to preserve the institutions of mass incarceration and police brutality. Because they don't see themselves as victims of these things, but as benefactors, they will fight hard to preserve the status quo against a reform candidate.”

“For my entire life, I have held the cards of my complicated family history very close to my chest.”

“We must put an end to the corruption and systemic racism in our justice system, and that starts by electing progressive district attorneys who will fight for real justice across the country.”

“People with momentum can get so much done. Momentum is easy to lose and almost impossible to fake.”

“I've always loved technology - not gadgets so much... but I've enjoyed using technology to connect people to people and connect people to opportunities to do good.”

“I'm most comfortable at the intersection of technology and helping people; that's really what gets me going and gets me excited and what I get most passionate about.”

“My theory on momentum is that the best way to produce it is through small, hard-fought victories that lead to bigger battles and bigger wins. Winning builds momentum.”

“I have been told for most of my life that the white man on my birth certificate is not my biological father and that my actual biological father is a light-skinned black man.”

“When 63 million people voted to elect Donald Trump as the president of the United States, it opened up the floodgates for toxic white masculinity in America.”

“People I love and trust advise me to just drop off the face of the Earth for an extended period of time, and maybe that will calm or cool things down. But my work is very public work.”

“Donald Trump is a bigot.”

“I've had some unbelievable successes, and I've also learned painful lessons through failures so low I can hardly stand to think of them.”

“For about a year, I worked for 'Daily Kos.' They were great. I mean, they allowed me to write whatever I was thinking about and feeling. 'The New York Daily News' saw it. They were making some pretty big changes. They hired a new editor in chief. I was his first hire.”

“I like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. In a dream world, the bread is super soft, like the Wonder Bread of my childhood, and the sandwich will have crunchy peanut butter, strawberry jam, and a cup of cold milk to go with it.”

“I reject this idea that who Bernie Sanders was in the 1960s is irrelevant. Who you are and what you do, what you fought for, and who and what you fought against, is always relevant.”

“No man represents toxic white masculinity more than Donald Trump.”

“America was not built on kindness or the Christianity of Christ. It was not built on freedom or liberty. This nation was built on white supremacy.”

“I was raised by a great single mother. I grew up in rural Kentucky, and she's just a really compassionate woman.”

“It's always important, when we experience injustice in this nation, that people in power understand that we will not take that injustice quietly.”

“I would never crawl into a secret space to avoid the frustrating things.”