78 Quotes by Ayanna Pressley

Not everyone is granted the opportunity that each of us deserves: to fulfill our God-given potential.

I am probably an outsider because I challenge conventional narratives about who should have a seat at the table.

I will sit at the table and compromise with anyone in the name of progress, but there are things I'm not willing to compromise and negotiate on, and that is the rights of women, of immigrants, of workers, and of the LGBTQIA community.

I've just kept going, like millions of people do every day, because life does not allow them to do anything else.

Our schools should be rewarding for all students.

I've not been a decisively re-elected city councilor and top vote-getter three times because I haven't done the work and because I don't work hard.

I'm an only child. My mother was raising me alone. We couldn't afford child care; child care hours didn't work according to her schedule.

At the women's march, we held signs that said, 'Today we march, tomorrow we run.' They didn't believe us, but it's coming to pass.

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