100 Quotes by Nina Turner

We have a problem with our democracy when you have election officials deliberately trying to take away the fundamental right to vote in this country in the 21st century.

The right to vote is an important guarantee by itself, but it is what those votes add up to that matters even more. These votes shape the government under which we live.

Ohio is my home, always. I'm a homegirl. Ohio is my home. Ohio is my first love.

I was director of governmental affairs at the Cleveland school district. I served in the administration of Mayor Michael R. White.

Cleveland is my hometown.

If there is a Republican or a Libertarian or Green Party person that believes in Medicare for all, then that's our kind of person.

My mother raised me herself, along with my six younger siblings, in Cleveland, and life wasn't easy even in the best of times. At age 42, she died, and it fell on me, then aged 22 and working minimum wage, to take care of all of us. At the time, I was newly married with a baby son. And I was deeply afraid for our future.

I don't want our white working class sisters and brothers to feel as though their pain is not important because it is. But at the same time, I want my white sisters and brothers to understand that when we talk about income and wealth inequality, that disproportionately African Americans suffer a little more.

I was born to teenage parents who got married young and divorced early.