Ilhan Omar Quotes

Ilhan Omar

Profession : Politician

Birth : October 4, 1981

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.

Ilhan Omar

I grew up under a dictatorship. I knew what it meant for people to not have the ability to freely express themselves.

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I've always said you get what you organize for.

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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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I talk all the time about the eight-year-old me and all the eight-year-olds who are living in their camps.

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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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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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I would have loved to have heard a story like mine. I could have used it as an inspiration to get by.

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I have a duty to teach my people about their rights and protect them from being bamboozled.

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Minnesota's diversity should be its greatest strength, but our neglect of nonwhite students has stifled our progress toward growth and equity.

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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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When I was coming to this country, I heard about its promises.

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I grew up in a household where we all celebrated who we were. There was no space to make people feel different or 'less than.'

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We need to recognize that racism has never been subtle, though it has gone underreported.

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One night, militia tried to break into our home, and the exterior was riddled with bullets.

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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.

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I invited President Trump twice now to come meet my family and my community because he seems to have a lot of opinions about the kind of people we are.

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We must see others' struggles as our own, and their success as our success, so we can speak to our common humanity.

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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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Somalis in Minnesota have worked so hard to get their voices heard in the political process.

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