- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one percent must pay their fair share.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people were selling the politics of fear and division and destruction, we were talking about hope. We were talking about the politics of joy.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kids are the reason I continue to strive for something better. They know - as kids who are Muslim, Somali, black Americans - that they've always been part of a struggle and that change isn't easy.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe women and minorities often wait for permission to be invited to something; we need to stop doing that.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is a land of immigrants, and most come here for opportunity, a second chance.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's our time to fight for the America we know we can have.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
One night, militia tried to break into our home, and the exterior was riddled with bullets.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find hope in knowing that I belong to a state that has a lot of people who are champions of change and progress; that we will rise up and fight for justice and equality; that, ultimately, love will trump hate.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We say this is a land of immigrants, and we forget that this was a land that belonged to people. And those of us who are new immigrants and those of us who come from generations of immigrants have to realize we are not that much different from one another.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since 2011, I am happy to say that I have reconciled with Ahmed Hirsi; we have married in our faith tradition and are raising our family together. Like all families, we have had our ups and downs, but we are proud to have come through it together.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
The house I was born in in Somalia was right next to a big market. A lot of beggars or panhandlers would be in front of our house constantly, and my grandfather and grandmother would always invite them in to have food with us and have them take whatever was left over.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always made aware of inequality in society, that there was a class system. In Somalia, we have clan structures. My mother's family is ethnically not Somali, and so we spoke often about what it meant to be 'other' in that way.
- Dictatorship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up under a dictatorship. I knew what it meant for people to not have the ability to freely express themselves.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to be constantly reminded that this is a representative democracy, and we need to be in tune to what people are talking about.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can all agree that we need to be helping small businesses. All of us can agree that the cost of higher education is too high, and college debt is too big of a burden for young people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a household where we all celebrated who we were. There was no space to make people feel different or 'less than.'
- Kids
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kids have been around politics since they were little.
- Great Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020