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" Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it. "
Pramila Jayapal
Just
Student
Student Loans
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" For immigrant women, the very act of immigration is about opportunity, equality, and freedom. Women immigrants come to America to care for their families, escape gender-based violence, or express their sexual identity. "
Pramila Jayapal
Identity
Women
Opportunity
" 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
Up
Time
" As an immigrant, I have lived, in a way, the American dream, and I want to make sure that opportunity is available for everybody. "
Pramila Jayapal
Opportunity
American
American Dream
" 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
" 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. "
Pramila Jayapal
Home
War
Children
" 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
" History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence. "
Pramila Jayapal
Always
Silence
Moral
" I actually had a number of different careers. I worked on Wall Street; I was a Master's in Business. I left that to work in the public sector. "
Pramila Jayapal
Business
Master
Street
" 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 have my chops in organizing, and I know how to create political space through movement building. "
Pramila Jayapal
Space
Building
Create
" 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
" We need to expand the idea of choice to be about all the choices we make in our lives: including which country we choose to live in so we can be whole and full women. "
Pramila Jayapal
Choices
Choose
Women
" Trump has hated Amazon for a long time, and I think that that came out in many interviews that he's done with 'Vanity Fair' and with others. "
Pramila Jayapal
Done
Long
Long Time
" Policy is about real people and real stories, and sometimes we forget that. "
Pramila Jayapal
Real
Sometimes
Policy
" Statistics are just a compilation of people's stories put on paper, and legislation is our attempt to address those real challenges for people. "
Pramila Jayapal
Real
Statistics
People
" My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter. "
Pramila Jayapal
Me
Appreciate
Language
" 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
" I love my district, the 37th Legislative District in Washington State, where I have lived for more than 20 years. "
Pramila Jayapal
Lived
Love
Washington
" 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. "
Pramila Jayapal
Arguing
Listening
Need
" 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
Us
Forward
Live
" As we say we fight for working people, we have to make sure our policies reflect that. "
Pramila Jayapal
People
Fight
Reflect
" 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
" 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. "
Pramila Jayapal
Thinking
Family
Children
" I'm the first South Asian woman to be elected to the House of Representatives. "
Pramila Jayapal
Elected
House
Woman
" We can never be afraid to stand up for what is right, no matter what others may say. And sometimes, if that means taking a lonely road, if what we are standing for is true, then perhaps moonlight or sunshine will light our way and make it less lonely. "
Pramila Jayapal
Stand
Sunshine
Light
" 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. "
Pramila Jayapal
Special
Voice
Fight
" 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. "
Pramila Jayapal
You
Before
Border
" 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 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. "
Pramila Jayapal
Change
Justice
Bear
" It is always easier to have somebody to blame, but immigrants are not the cause of the country's economic woes. "
Pramila Jayapal
Immigrants
Always
Blame