Quotes by Ilhan Omar - Page 2

Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage of understanding the world in a different way.
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Civil War
Somalia
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I have been very fortunate to have a partner who really stepped up and have wonderful children who do a lot of things that make it easy for Mommy to do this work.
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Mommy
Partner
Stepped
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I'm not easily scared; from the age of 8, I learned what it means to have everything you know taken away and what it means to persevere. I approach politics the same way.
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Age
Approach
Persevere
Scared
Taken
Away
Same
Easily
Learned
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I think it is really important when we're talking about fiscal responsibility that we are balancing the budget in ways that really benefit the working people and Americans.
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Fiscal Responsibility
Responsibility
Balancing
Benefit
Budget
Fiscal
Working People
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Many in the Somali community are excited to vote and support candidates who have shown an ability to lead with integrity and not use props and gatekeepers to get their votes.
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Candidates
Gatekeepers
Integrity
Props
Somali
Shown
Votes
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I think we forget that, for a really long time, this country has been a place that has welcomed many refugees who have made it home and have tremendously contributed to this country.
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Long Time
Time Home Long
Really Long Time
Refugees
Tremendously
Welcomed
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When I talk about places like Saudi Arabia or Israel or even now with Venezuela, I'm not criticizing the people. I'm not criticizing their faith. I'm not criticizing their way of life.
Ilhan Omar /
Arabia
Saudi Arabia
Venezuela
Life Faith People
Criticizing
Even Now
Places
Saudi
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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.
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Agree
Burden
Cost
Helping
Higher
Higher Education
Education People Young
Small Businesses
Young People
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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.
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Somali
Strive
Black Americans
Muslim
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I think a big part of my faith teachings is to work together towards equality: that we're all created equal, and under the eyes of God, we all have a right to freedom and to access our rights equally.
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Equality
Faith
Access
Equal
Rights
God Faith Work
Big Part
Eyes
Towards
Teachings
Work Together
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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.
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Belong
Champions
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We can walk and chew gum at the same time. Yes, the American people want us to legislate, they want us to insist on furthering their set of values, but they also want us to resist and exercise our oversight powers.
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Exercise
Gum
Oversight
Time Walk People
American People
Chew
Insist
Legislate
Powers
Same Time
Yes
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There are a few things that we can do. One of them is that we can increase the taxes that people are paying who are the extremely wealthy in our communities. So, 70 percent, 80 percent, we've had it as high as 90 percent.
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Few Things
Paying
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I had a lot of challenges starting school, and my dad says I would come home every day crying and feeling bad about the problems I was having with some of the kids. And he would tell me to work hard on learning the language.
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Crying
Work Hard
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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.
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Inequality
Meant To Be
Somali
Family Society Always
Clan
Spoke
Structures
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I was a teenager when 9/11 happened. And I really was uncomfortable with many members of our community feeling like they had to strip themselves of their identity in order to mitigate the violence and the fears that they were feeling.
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Our Community
Teenager
Uncomfortable
Fears
Mitigate
Strip
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Israel is an ally of the United States, and I think as much as you would look to your neighbor to your friends to live out the same values as you are, we want to make sure that our allies are living out the same values that we push for here.
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Allies
Neighbor
Your Look Live
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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.
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Married
Downs
Reconciled
Ups
Ups And Downs
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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.
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Generations
Immigrants
Belonged
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We've become the party that wants to appease everyone and no one. And I think the only way that the Democrats become viable again is if we have people who have moral clarity and courage to say what they need to say and fight for what they need to fight for.
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Courage
Appease
Clarity
Moral
Fight People Way
Courage Fight People
Democrats
Viable
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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.
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Grandfather
Somalia
Beggars
Constantly
Front
Invite
Market
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In just my own neighborhood, you can't go one block without seeing a sign that says, you know, 'Everyone's welcome here,' 'Refugees are welcome here.' I love my Muslim neighbors, and so there is truly this spirit of generosity and compassion and openness that still exists.
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Block
Compassion
Generosity
Neighborhood
Openness
Welcome
Exists
Refugees
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For me, as an immigrant who didn't speak the language, when I would have struggles as a kid, my dad would say, 'Once you are able to communicate with people, they're able to connect with you beyond your otherness.' That is really the message I've carried throughout my life.
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Communicate
Life Dad Me
Life Dad Your
Carried
Immigrant
Struggles
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I am not a Somali representative. I am not a Muslim representative. I am not a millennial representative. I am not a woman representative. I am a representative who happens to have all of these marginalized identities and can understand the intersectionality of all of them in a very unique way.
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Marginalized
Somali
Unique
Understand
Woman
Identities
Muslim
Representative
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I think my faith as a Muslim is very important. One of the core values is that you are always trying to build consensus. So when it comes to figuring out if something is permissible or not in Islam, it's usually a discussion, and people have to come to a consensus in order for something to be approved.
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Faith
Approved
Consensus
Core
Core Values
Discussion
Islam
Order
Build
Always Important People
Figuring
Muslim
Permissible
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I'm going from the state House to the opportunity to serve in Congress and serve the people in the Fifth, which is a great honor and a great opportunity... It is something that is exciting to a few people, but, you know, often times it is important for us to own the moment, celebrate it, and then move on.
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Celebrate
Fifth
Great Opportunity
Few People
Move On
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I talk a lot about the men in my family because my mother died when I was little, and my grandmother died when my aunts were little, so we didn't have those kinds of heads of household. But all the members of our household who were female were sort of living as equal and as wise as the male figures in our family.
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Wise
Died
Equal
Female
Figures
Household
Members
Mother
Talk
Living
Male
Family Men Mother
Aunts
Heads
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We know that when people are civically engaged, when they understand what their rights are, when they understand that in a democracy you can challenge governments, you can challenge policymakers, and you can... actually shape and form future policy, I think it changes the perception that a lot of young people have about where power is.
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Future
Democracy
Engaged
Form
Perception
Policy
Rights
Young
Understand
Actually
Future Power People
Challenge
Governments
Shape
Young People
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We didn't really grow up in a gendered environment. We didn't have a hierarchy. My family is fearless. They truly believe that they have something to contribute to society and that it is an obligation as humans. I try to embed in my children that they have something to contribute. And that you give because you have to, not to be appreciated.
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Appreciated
Hierarchy
Obligation
Contribute
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As an immigrant, I truly believed when I was coming to this country that people had the tools necessary to life to live a life that is prosperous, that is just and free. So, every single day, I am shocked with the hypocrisy of this country. That we are the wealthiest nation in the world. But we cannot figure out how to house our homeless people.
Ilhan Omar /
Country
Homeless
House
Hypocrisy
Prosperous
Shocked
Single
Tools
World
Just
Life World I Am
Had
Free
Am
Life World Day
Believed
Cannot
Every
Coming
Nation
Day
Every Single Day
Figure
Immigrant
Single Day
Truly
We Cannot
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