Jamaal Bowman Quotes

Jamaal Bowman

Profession : Politician

Birth : April 1, 1976

The care economy impacts all of us: our children, elderly loved ones, family members with disabilities, child care workers, home health aides, nurses, and so many more. Care is something we all need, at different stages in our lives.

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Defund the police does not mean abolish the police. It means a dramatic reduction in the number of police in our poor communities and particularly our poor Black and Brown communities.

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Ending the school-to-prison pipeline is not a small task and requires detangling the myth of white superiority from our entire education system.

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We must work together to unlearn the biases that make our foundation week, and rebuild a foundation of collective care, love, and cooperation.

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Whoever becomes Education Secretary has to have a love and passion for public schools. Not charter schools, not vouchers, but public schools.

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We need a federal jobs guarantee that puts everyone to work toward a green, clean renewable energy economy.

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I talk about the politics of love over the politics of fear... Fear is rooted in institutional racism. It's this fear of what's different, fear of the unknown, and looking at something that's different as deficient. It doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be a zero sum game.

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My background is: I'm a Black man in America, victim of police brutality, victim of institutional racism, working-class from working-class roots.

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Our democracy is falling apart - we can't just let that happen.

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The school-to-prison pipeline - the disproportionality that exists in handing out school discipline in schools to Black and Brown students for simple infractions - pushes kids out of classrooms and into our ever-growing system of mass incarceration.

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I am endorsing Joe Biden. He has to be our president. Donald Trump is a racist and a fascist, and we have to do everything in our power to make sure Joe Biden wins.

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We need a Green New Deal for Public Housing, as my colleague and friend Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez has proposed. We need a Green New Deal for Cities, as my friend Cori Bush has proposed. And we need a Green New Deal for Public Schools.

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The story of the American Jewish community is one of resilience and transformation. While often facing antisemitism and discrimination, the Jewish community fought to build better lives for themselves while making this nation a better place for all.

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I'm going to be the kind of congressperson where I'm going to be at rallies with the people, fighting for justice and being present and showing them that they have a fighter and a champion in Congress with them and for them.

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Our foreign aid to other nations should never be used to harm.

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Our schools, like so many parts of our infrastructure, are crumbling across the country. Healing our schools can and should be central to our fight to achieve environmental, racial and economic justice.

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Losing your home is one of the most destabilizing, inhumane things a person can experience.

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We must hire more social workers and counselors in our schools than police officers.

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I was suspended and discarded. I was told to go to hell by administrators. I was placed in classes far beneath my intelligence. I even had a teacher tell me my life was ruined.

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I would never try to fill John Lewis's shoes. I can only be myself - my authentic self.

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