Rashida Tlaib

Politician

1976-07-24

Quotes by Rashida Tlaib

• We cannot have policies that punish people for taking action. Imagine the further harm it would have caused if the federal government banned civil rights leaders from boycotting buses in Montgomery, Alabama, or banning divestment from Apartheid South Africa.

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• I'm just this girl that grew up in southwest Detroit.

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• No matter how much the private sector crows that corporate tax breaks will lead to more jobs or robust economic activity, such benefits rarely materialize.

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• I have fought so heavily against corporate tax breaks, especially because I've seen our schools in Detroit close down.

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• We demand Congress access and publicly release Donald Trump's tax returns!

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• Stolen scrap like manhole covers, railroad weights, stop signs, guard rails, and public lighting put our residents in grave danger. Not only that, but the theft is tearing apart communities with stolen church and cemetery ornaments.

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• I was my mother's translator until I was probably 12 years old, and I remember how people looked at her.

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• We have to be a nation of compassion and some sort of humanity when it comes to the treatment of other human beings.

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• Old models of development simply seek to lure business with substantial tax breaks and then hope (and pray) that economic benefits will trickle down to residents. It has not worked for our city in the past, and it will not work for the future city that we all hope want to see.

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• Limiting the ability of the people to peacefully organize and partake in direct action to fight against persecution and discrimination is not only barred by the U.S. Constitution but is fundamentally un-American.

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• We cannot afford to deliberately cripple our cities by transferring public tax dollars to private entities for benefits that are unclear at best.

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• Allowing workers' compensation for all injured workers is a better system than allowing people to be part of a black market of undocumented workers.

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• In 2017, Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, an Arizona sheriff who was ordered by a federal court to stop racially profiling and was convicted of criminal contempt when he refused. Arpaio, by targeting Latinx people, was violating both the U.S. Constitution and our civil rights.

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• I am for everyone, every single person, Israeli, Palestinian, to have equal access to opportunities, to feel safe where they live, and to really be a genuine partner and a visionary around reaching peace in that region.

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• My mom is a woman who grew up in a small farming village in the West Bank called Beit Ur El Foka. She only went to school up to 8th grade and then dropped out to go work in a tailor shop that made dresses and different embroidered designs to make money for her family.

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