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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. "

Pramila Jayapal

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" This is the country that we are turning over to young people, and there is going to be no country left at this rate because Trump is destroying the soul of who we are. "

" I like to have my cup of green tea. "

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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. "

" Fundamentally, I've always been a fan of actually looking at our whole state tax system and really figuring out how we reform our tax system so that everyone's paying their fair share but we don't have a lot of nickel and diming with 100 taxes that end up hitting people that maybe can't bear it the most. "

" I've always believed that immigration is really about who we are as a country and what we're willing to stand up for. "

" I came to the United States by myself when I was 16 years old. My parents had about $5,000 in their bank account, and they used it all to send me here because they truly believed that this country was where I was going to get the best education and have the best opportunities. "

" I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the minimum wage in Washington state my first year in the state senate, and I really believe that raising the federal minimum wage, while not the answer to everything, addresses a lot of the issues at the very bottom. "

" It is always easier to have somebody to blame, but immigrants are not the cause of the country's economic woes. "

" I'm not a complainer. I'm a doer. So if I see something is wrong, then I feel like I have to get in there and try to fix it. "

" 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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" As an immigrant, I have lived, in a way, the American dream, and I want to make sure that opportunity is available for everybody. "

" We must be clear: Donald Trump is lying when he conflates immigrants coming across the border with MS-13 gangs. "

" The fact that the immigration issue was the first thing Trump took aim at was a good thing for me, because it's what I spent my life working on. It became a place to see what we've become as a country, and how overreach can actually serve to bring those of us on the Left and Democrats together. "

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" We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up. "

" Immigration is about more than just who comes here and who is allowed to stay. It is about who we are as a country and what we are willing to stand up for. "

" I'm an organizer at heart. Organizers know that giving information, being in front of people, talking to people, to build our movement for the kind of country that we see is the most important thing. "

" Certainly there are many Congress members who have been arrested in the past on immigration issues and will continue to because we all understand that staying silent is not an option. "

" Can you be a progressive if you're anti-immigrant but pro-choice? No! "

" Rather than name-calling and arguing about whether it is appropriate or not to employ radical tactics, we progressives need to start listening to each other. "

" We the people are sick and tired of the criminalization of immigrants, sick to our hearts to see Trump's family separation policies rip families apart across our country. "

" We are a country that has always been known for providing opportunities to people. We have lost a lot of that opportunity. "

" I think what I learned is that just because somebody says you can't talk to them or just because somebody says they don't have an answer for you, you don't stop. "

" Sometimes when really terrible things happen, something beautiful emerges out of it. "