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" We don't get a more responsive government unless we start to systematically run organizing campaigns to change the way government works. "
Pramila Jayapal
Run
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" 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. "
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" Trump can embrace dictators and gulags, but we the people stand for human rights, for dignity, for keeping families together. "
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" 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. "
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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 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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" 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. "
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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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Time
" People who think that the immigration system is easy and people should just apply legally - it just isn't that easy. "
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System
" History has always judged silence and complicity harshly in these times of moral consequence. "
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Always
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" I like to have my cup of green tea. "
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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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Anger
Building
Growing
" My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter. "
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Me
Appreciate
Language
" If someone tells me that something can't be done, that makes me more determined to do it. "
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Someone
More
" 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. "
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Minimum Wage
Believe
Seattle
" I usually wake up really early because I keep myself on East Coast time. "
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Because
Wake Up
Early
" 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. "
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Time
Fight
I Am
" 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. "
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Girl
Business
World
" What makes America great is our commitment to our values of inclusivity and opportunity for all. "
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Great
Opportunity
America
" When bosses, leaders, and powerful men and women ignore or deny the accounts of harassment victims, they reinforce the idea that harassers are playing the game as they should and that the rest of us should fall in line. "
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Game
Women
Fall
" 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. "
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Behavior
Women
Power
" 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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Lost
Opportunity
People
" 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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Think
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Talk
" 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. "
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Business
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" 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. "
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Education
Best
" I've always thought of the United States as a place where so much was possible and so many opportunities were out there. "
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Thought
Place
Always
" Policy is about real people and real stories, and sometimes we forget that. "
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Real
Sometimes
Policy
" Profiting from student loans is usury, and we just can't continue to allow it. "
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Just
Student
Student Loans
" Those who have the most power - whether famous TV anchors, rich Hollywood moguls, judges, Members of Congress, or the president of the United States - must decide how to exert that power: for corruption or for good. "
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Rich
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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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Children
" 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. "
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Like
Body
Fast