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" Having a strong race lens means you understand racism is threaded through and institutionalized in all of our systems and our very perceptions, threaded through how someone looks at you, treats you, thinks about you and your potential. "

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" Getting a college degree used to be free or low cost because, as a society, we saw providing higher education to young people as an investment - in them and in the future of our own country. "

Pramila Jayapal

College

Education

Future

" We don't get a more responsive government unless we start to systematically run organizing campaigns to change the way government works. "

" I'm the first South Asian woman to be elected to the House of Representatives. "

" We on the Left are very good at criticizing people, but we need to build the base to pull people to the Left. "

" 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? "

Pramila Jayapal

Fear

Time

" I feel like young people, more than anyone in the country, always have their moral compass on perfectly straight. "

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

" 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. "

" Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It's the only way we move forward. "

Pramila Jayapal

Forward

Live

" 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 come from a state in India that is a matrilineal state, Kerala. And so women really are seen as very powerful. "

" The American people expect their leaders to condemn white supremacy in unambiguous terms. President Trump not only failed at condemning white supremacists and neo-Nazis, he stood up for them - for that, he must be censured. "

" 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. "

Pramila Jayapal

Body

Fast

" I am grateful for my family, friends, and all those who send constant love and support - you are my energy and my hope. You teach me, love me even when I'm wrong, and let me ride the challenges and come out whole. "

" My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter. "

Pramila Jayapal

Appreciate

Language

" I have an incredibly supportive family. "

" 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. "

" Racism, sexism, and age-ism are all alive and well in the U.S. House. "

" 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. "

" When I was a little girl, my dad always said to me that I was going to be this great businesswoman, that I was going to be the CEO of IBM. So that's what I came into the world thinking, that I was going to go into the business world and make my mark there. "

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

" Trump can embrace dictators and gulags, but we the people stand for human rights, for dignity, for keeping families together. "

" Ripping children away from their parents has a particular shameful history, both in this country and around the world. "

" I want to remind women of color out there to stand your ground, and don't ever be afraid to speak up. "

" The vast majority of immigrants - regardless of the conditions of war and poverty that may wrack their home countries - come and contribute to their new home country: building our roads, caring for our homes, children, and elders, and serving as doctors, lawyers, employers, and innovators. "

" I would attend a State of the Union by a president with whom I disagree if I felt she or he was otherwise respectful and adhered to basic moral values or basic tenets of civility and respect. "

" 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. "

" President Trump has harnessed the fear and prejudice that have accompanied every wave of immigrants in United States history, and stoked those fears to further his own agenda. "

" Diversity is not just about the fact that the pictures look better. I mean, they always do look better! "

" We have to have a planet to pass on to the next generation, and these issues of climate change and climate justice and the disproportionate burdens that communities of color actually bear from our damaging climate is a huge issue. "