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Rashida Tlaib Quotes

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“I mean, look, our president has a hate agenda. He doesn't have a policy agenda.”
— Rashida Tlaib, Rashida Tlaib Transcript
Tagged: The Squad, Donald Trump, Hate
“I’m gonna be unapologetic in myself. Seventy percent of Americans curse. I am real. This is who I am.”
— Rashida Tlaib, Gayle King's interview with "the Squad": Read the full transcript
Tagged: The Squad, Cursing, Unapologetic
“Each passing day brings more pain for the people most directly hurt by this president.”
— Rashida Tlaib, Rashida Tlaib Calls for Taking Immediate Steps Toward Impeachment on Her First Day in Congress
Tagged: The Squad, Donald Trump
“I don’t come from a place of violence, I come from a place of love and equality and justice.”
— Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Tlaib: My ancestors ‘had been wiped out… in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews’
Tagged: The Squad, Violence, Love, Equality, Justice
“We are not going to back down.”
— Rashida Tlaib, Gayle King's interview with "the Squad": Read the full transcript
Tagged: The Squad, Defiance
“I like to think about growing and nurturing and loving.”
— Rashida Tlaib, Gayle King's interview with "the Squad": Read the full transcript
Tagged: The Squad, Growing, nurturing, Loving
“When a legal immigrant can be deported for the most minor offenses, like omitting information on a form that at the time seemed irrelevant, or forgetting to change one’s address, can all be used as a basis to be uprooted from your home and taken away from your family and children.”
— Rashida Tlaib, Rashida Tlaib
Tagged: The Squad, Immigration
“I can tell you, they're—all around college campuses, there are Jews, Muslims, Hindus, all different kinds of backgrounds who are pushing back against racist policies in Israel, because they see that—the human rights violations of children being detained, the fact that my grandmother, who lives in the West Bank right now, does not have equality, she doesn't have freedom of travel.”
— Rashida Tlaib, Rashida Tlaib Transcript
Tagged: The Squad, Jews, Muslims, Middle East, human rights, West Bank, Palestine
“Lost in the often-vitriolic national quarrel over immigration reform is any examination of proposed measures that would result in excessive punishment, such as detention and deportation, for the most minor offenses. Concern for 'national security' has introduced unprecedented insecurity to living in the United States as a legal permanent resident.”
— Rashida Tlaib, Rashida Tlaib
Tagged: The Squad, Immigration, National Security
“Over and over again, we hear about border security, legalization and national security, but there is no reference to maintaining our tradition and American values of keeping families together, providing a safe haven for the needy and advancing humanity. Where is the spirit of justice, equality and fairness in the debate on immigration?”
— Rashida Tlaib, Rashida Tlaib
Tagged: The Squad, border security, National Security, Justice, Equality, Fairness
“I'm trying to represent my district, a very diverse district with 20 different ethnicities. And I'm trying to fight on their behalf, trying to make sure that they have a voice here. At the same time, I'm dealing with the biggest bully I've ever had to deal with in my lifetime and trying to push back on that and trying to do the job that we all have been sent here to do, which is centered around the people at home.”
— Rashida Tlaib, Gayle King's interview with "the Squad": Read the full transcript
Tagged: The Squad, Donald Trump, bullies
“If Netanyahu got up tomorrow morning and decides you know what I’m gonna take down the walls. I’m not gonna expand settlements, enough is enough, I really want to push towards a two-state solution, he has every power, every power to do that. And then people like myself and others will truly believe in that. But uprooting people all over again, to say that that’s gonna — because you understand when you look at the landscape and just map it out, it is almost absolutely impossible with how he has proceeded to divide, how he’s proceeded to dissect and segregate communities that is impossible to see a two-state solution without more people being hurt.”
— Rashida Tlaib, A quick look at the transcript disproves Republicans’ new smear of Rashida Tlaib
Tagged: The Squad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Two-State Solution
“I always tell folks, when I think of the Holocaust and the tragedy of the Holocaust and the fact that it was my ancestors, Palestinians who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity, their existence in some ways had been wiped out.. all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post the Holocaust, post the tragedy and horrific persecution of Jews across the world at that time. And, I love the fact that it was my ancestors that provided that, right? In many ways. But they did it in a way that took their human dignity away, right? And it was forced on them.”
— Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Tlaib: My ancestors ‘had been wiped out… in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews’
Tagged: The Squad, Palestinians, Holocaust, Jews
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