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

Pramila Jayapal

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

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" Policy is about real people and real stories, and sometimes we forget that. "

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" History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence. "

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" I've been told to go back to my country so many times, I can't even count. "

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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. "

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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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" If you're an opposition party, you are actively using the power you have to oppose the ideas of the other party. "

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" Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it. "

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" I love my district, the 37th Legislative District in Washington State, where I have lived for more than 20 years. "

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" We have to remember that disagreeing with people is fine; it is dehumanizing people that is not, and when that happens, we have to be ready to speak up. "

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" OneAmerica worked over the course of a decade to bring the movement of immigrants and communities of color together with the movement for marriage equality in Washington. "

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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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" 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. "

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" If there is one thing that resonates for women, it is that regardless of where we come from or what we look like, we want to be fully recognized for the breadth of our contributions. "

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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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" Immigrants contribute more than they take. It is a lie that they take public benefits, because they don't qualify for just about every benefit. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" Before running for the Washington State Senate in 2014, I had spent 20 years as an activist. I had always believed that we needed to push for change on the outside, through community organizing and advocacy. "

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" My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table. "

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

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" 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. "

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" There isn't really precedent for asylum seekers' being criminally prosecuted at the border before they've had a 'credible fear' hearing. You come seeking asylum. Seeking asylum is not illegal. "

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" If someone tells me that something can't be done, that makes me more determined to do it. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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