title: How to prevent bleach from escaping > (blockquote) tag used in Markdown
body: <p>I'm using bleach to sanitize user input. But I use Markdown which means I need the blockquote > symbol to go through without being escaped as &amp; gt; so I can pass it to misaka for rendering.</p>
  
  <p>The documentation says by default it escapes html markup but doesn't say how to turn that off for the > symbol. I would still like it to escape actual html tags.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://bleach.readthedocs.org/en/latest/clean.html" rel="nofollow">http://bleach.readthedocs.org/en/latest/clean.html</a></p>
  
  <p>Any other ideas for sanitizing input while maintaing the ability to use Markdown would be appreciated.</p>