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" I'm not a scholar of Islamic history or jurisprudence or anything. "
Keith Ellison
Anything
History
Islamic
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" The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. "
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" You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion as a club, or do you see religion as a path? Do you see it as a wall that separates you or do you see it as a bridge that connects you to God and other people? When you see it as a bridge, you aren't so worried about bringing others over to your side. "
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" Why can't we get real, sane, sensible gun legislation? Because the NRA, funded by Mossberg, Smith & Wesson, Glock and all the rest of the big dogs in the weapons industry, you know, spread around donations and won't let it move through. "
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" Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them. "
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" People will politicize religion; we see it in every faith, in every religion. We see it with Pat Robertson, in my opinion, and we see it with the Taliban. "
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" You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day. "
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" I'd tell you whose brand was tainted is Donald Trump. I mean, this guy was tainted every kind of way you could imagine. I mean, no way in the world that Donald Trump is a champion of working people. "
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" Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement. "
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Depend
" Those who seek the divine want to make this world a better place, which first requires that we communicate. "
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" At the end of the day, the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott had to be converted into the 1964 Civil Rights Act. We don't want politicians who've gotta be coaxed, cajoled and protested. We want them on our side from the beginning. "
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Beginning
Bus
" We got to make sure that the Democratic Party is not just Democratic, but seen to be Democratic. That means we got to have systems in place that makes sure that everybody who participates in a primary is perceived to have an equal shot with everybody else. "
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Got
Party
Just
" Decent wages keep people out of homeless shelters. Decent wages allow families to afford books and, I don't know, school fees and things like that. "
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School
People
" When you're a leader, you cannot ignore parts of your constituency, even if you know they're not going to vote for you. "
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Leader
You
Vote
" Throughout my work as a state legislator and member of Congress since 2002, I have worked as hard as I could to build bridges. I've worked to combat anti-Semitism and confront Holocaust denial. I've organized dozens of meetings to promote interfaith dialogue and joint projects. "
Keith Ellison
Bridges
Work
Meetings
" I'm not against T.V. advertising for campaigns, but we need to emphasize field campaigning much more than we do. "
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" My faith and my identity as a Muslim - I never saw it as something that made my job harder. It's just an aspect of who I am. "
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" The real problem for Democrats is we've got to help people believe, and then we've got to deliver the message to them. Believe what? That we are absolutely, unshakeably on their side, and we're going to fight for them every single minute. "
Keith Ellison
Help
Problem
People
" People spend money on negative campaigning because it works. "
Keith Ellison
Spend
People
Money
" We need a strong farm bill that gives assistance to farmers during times of drought, creates markets for local goods, protects our environment, and helps struggling families bridge the gap between hard times and a full dinner table. "
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Bridge
Environment
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" My mom, Clida, taught my four brothers and me about her father's work to organize black voters in rural Louisiana in the 1950s. We carried her dad's legacy of activism with us. The Civil Rights Movement was present in the daily life of my family in Detroit in the 1970s. "
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Work
Daily
Family
" Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more. "
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" Anybody that's ever been to Israel and to Palestine knows that you can't look at a person and tell if they're Israeli or Palestinian. You can assume. But I've seen Palestinians who look Swedish, and I've seen Israelis who are black. "
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Person
Israel
You
" There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homogeneous population, the state has produced some of our more radical political thinkers, and its people have put their prejudices aside to vote for them. "
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Political
Water
" I think debates are healthy. I think they include more people. And I don't believe most people, if they don't win, are just going to take their ball and go home. "
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" One of the things that will decline over time is the demand that the society or the government bring forth a particularized racial remedy based on a history of deprivation. That will be even more difficult to do in the future. "
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Time
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" If you can make a movie, make one. If you can sing a song, sing it. If you can write a play, write it. If you want to run for office, run. But do something to make this world a better place. "
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Run
You
Place
" The idea of a financial transaction tax on Wall Street trades is gaining momentum. I have a bill called - nicknamed the Robin Hood tax also. It's a bill that taxes stock trades, derivatives and bonds, and would generate in the neighborhood of $300 billion a year. "
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Hood
Financial
Tax
" Clean air and a healthy climate benefit all of us, but it will take a diverse coalition to step up to the threat posed by unchecked climate change. "
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" The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again. "
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" Vehicle emissions standards directly sparked the development and application of a wide range of automotive technologies that are now found throughout the global automobile market. "
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