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" Individuals whose asylum claims have been accepted have gone on to become professors, soldiers in our military, artists, and more. "
Pramila Jayapal
Become
Gone
Soldiers
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" I became an immigrant, civil and human rights advocate, then the first South Asian elected to the Washington State Legislature and the only woman of color in the Washington State Senate, and then was elected in 2016 to the United States Congress. "
Pramila Jayapal
Human Rights
Woman
Immigrant
" 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. "
Pramila Jayapal
Think
Just Because
Talk
" My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter. "
Pramila Jayapal
Me
Appreciate
Language
" Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it. "
Pramila Jayapal
Just
Student
Student Loans
" 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. "
Pramila Jayapal
Minimum Wage
Believe
Seattle
" What Republicans so cynically refer to as 'chain migration' is actually family-based immigration - a humane and compassionate policy of reunifying families. It allows spouses to be together, siblings to support each other, and children to be with their parents. It allows the immigrants who are already here to be successful. "
Pramila Jayapal
Parents
Children
Together
" I like being on a plane with no phone service because I get so much work done. "
Pramila Jayapal
Done
Work
Like
" We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up. "
Pramila Jayapal
Anger
Building
Growing
" 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. "
Pramila Jayapal
May
Women
Good
" If you look at the future of the Democratic Party, things like raising the minimum wage - Democrats need to get behind raising the minimum wage and be clear on where we stand on trade deals. "
Pramila Jayapal
Look
Future
Party
" I usually wake up really early because I keep myself on East Coast time. "
Pramila Jayapal
Because
Wake Up
Early
" Policy is about real people and real stories, and sometimes we forget that. "
Pramila Jayapal
Real
Sometimes
Policy
" My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table. "
Pramila Jayapal
You
People
Table
" 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. "
Pramila Jayapal
People
American
Expect
" I come from a state in India that is a matrilineal state, Kerala. And so women really are seen as very powerful. "
Pramila Jayapal
Seen
Very
Women
" When women are told that sexual harassment is 'part of the job' or when assistants of both sexes enable harassing behavior, they have bought into the culture that says such behavior is not just permissible, it is a desirable expression of power. "
Pramila Jayapal
Behavior
Women
Power
" 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
Like
Body
Fast
" 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. "
Pramila Jayapal
Fine
Up
Speak
" 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. "
Pramila Jayapal
Push
Change
Community
" Some people have called me the anti-Trump, and I'm so proud. "
Pramila Jayapal
Proud
Some People
Some
" 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. "
Pramila Jayapal
Wave
Fear
History
" As we say we fight for working people, we have to make sure our policies reflect that. "
Pramila Jayapal
People
Fight
Reflect
" Racism, sexism, and age-ism are all alive and well in the U.S. House. "
Pramila Jayapal
Racism
Alive
Well
" 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
" 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
Feel
Face
You
" 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. "
Pramila Jayapal
See
Fix
Try
" I am not a woman on Monday, an immigrant on Tuesday, a worker on Wednesday, and a mom on Thursday, I am all of those things all of the time, and I am going to fight for all of those things all of the time. "
Pramila Jayapal
Time
Fight
I Am
" I am on the side of the working person across the country. "
Pramila Jayapal
Working
I Am
Person
" I never thought I would run for office. "
Pramila Jayapal
Never
Would
Thought
" If you're an opposition party, you are actively using the power you have to oppose the ideas of the other party. "
Pramila Jayapal
Opposition
Party
Power