100 Quotes by Rashida Tlaib

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    I still remember, at the age of 12, learning that segregation had been permitted only a couple of decades before I was born and that a woman's right to vote was not even a century old. But it was great Americans who stood up, some dying for the cause, to make our country better.

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    We must stop tax giveaways to rich corporations and developers while our schools are crumbling and people are losing their homes.

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    Social niceties are not in order for men who would turn away refugees fleeing for their lives based on their faith to have them suffer in camps.

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    Historically marginalized populations have already had less access to wealth and credit building opportunities, and the continued use of credit histories to set auto insurance pricing compounds racial discrimination and exacerbates wealth inequality.

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    My mere existence as a member of Congress as a Palestinian causes a lot of fear, because I'm here as a human being, as an American, that is saying to the world that we exist.

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    Confrontational or not, my approach to public service has always been fighting for my families.

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    Detroit can't come close to repairing the decades of neglect without addressing the crisis in our neighborhoods. I live in southwest Detroit near Woodmere Cemetery. My neighbors and I deal with the negative impacts of job loss, increased poverty, and pollution every day.

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    Detroit can become a national model for urban revitalization, but to do so, it must break free from past development models.

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