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" 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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" 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. "

Pramila Jayapal

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" Racism, sexism, and age-ism are all alive and well in the U.S. House. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is always easier to have somebody to blame, but immigrants are not the cause of the country's economic woes. "

" 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. "

" My grandmother was whip smart as well as an incredible athlete. She played tennis in her sari, cheered on the Indian team in cricket matches, and tried to convince us that her made-up words were real so she could win a Scrabble game. "

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

" Some people have called me the anti-Trump, and I'm so proud. "

" My message to women - including women of color - stand strong. Refuse to be minimized or patronized. Let all the small guys out there be intimidated by you. "

" 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. "

" I like being on a plane with no phone service because I get so much work done. "

Pramila Jayapal

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" Diversity is not just about the fact that the pictures look better. I mean, they always do look better! "

" 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. "

" As an immigrant, I have lived, in a way, the American dream, and I want to make sure that opportunity is available for everybody. "

" I am on the side of the working person across the country. "

" 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. "

" I'm an organizer at heart. Organizers know that giving information, being in front of people, talking to people, to build our movement for the kind of country that we see is the most important thing. "

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

" Trump can embrace dictators and gulags, but we the people stand for human rights, for dignity, for keeping families together. "

" Ripping children away from their parents has a particular shameful history, both in this country and around the world. "

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

" We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up. "

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

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

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

" I want to remind women of color out there to stand your ground, and don't ever be afraid to speak up. "

" 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. "

" After 9/11, I had just become an American citizen, and I remember sitting in front of my TV set watching the news of the attacks, in tears. I remember thinking to myself, 'Nothing is ever going to be the same in this country for people who look like me.' "

" What makes America great is our commitment to our values of inclusivity and opportunity for all. "