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" Can you be a progressive if you're anti-immigrant but pro-choice? No! "
Pramila Jayapal
Pro-Choice
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" For immigrant women, fighting for some of the standard platforms of the women's movement may feel unthinkable when deportation is staring you in the face every day. "
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" Ripping children away from their parents has a particular shameful history, both in this country and around the world. "
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" For immigrant women, the very act of immigration is about opportunity, equality, and freedom. Women immigrants come to America to care for their families, escape gender-based violence, or express their sexual identity. "
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" It is always easier to have somebody to blame, but immigrants are not the cause of the country's economic woes. "
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" We need to expand the idea of choice to be about all the choices we make in our lives: including which country we choose to live in so we can be whole and full women. "
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" There were not that many people who were willing to come out and stand up for Muslims or stand up against the abuses of the Bush administration. That was post-9/11, so I think there was a lot of fear at the time about exactly what that meant - were they unpatriotic if they stood up? "
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" Trump can embrace dictators and gulags, but we the people stand for human rights, for dignity, for keeping families together. "
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" Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it. "
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" Policy is about real people and real stories, and sometimes we forget that. "
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" Every hour that goes by with family separation policies in effect is another hour that mothers weep thinking of their children, another hour that kids are fearfully wondering where their parents have been taken, another hour that trauma deepens. "
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" People who think that the immigration system is easy and people should just apply legally - it just isn't that easy. "
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" As difficult as my story is, it's nothing compared to the people I've worked with. And so I just want to do everything I can to make sure that America continues to be a land of opportunity and hope for people and refuge for people from all over the world. "
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" We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up. "
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" I have a little yoga ritual that I do just to move my body around. Whatever I do, it's usually very fast because often I don't have the kind of time that I would like to. "
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" Civil rights icons, famous journalists, big-time movie producers may all have credits to their name that we can recognize and be grateful for, but their record of good works cannot excuse their harassment of women. "
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" Corporations and special interests have their voice in Congress, and they have too many members scared of their power. What Congress needs is a progressive voice who is unafraid to take on these powerful interests - who is willing to fight for all Americans, not just the wealthiest 1 percent. "
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" There is no question that we, as a country, need to deal with economic inequality across the country, and we need to make sure we have good-paying jobs for everyone. "
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