Words matter. These are the best Jamaal Bowman Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
All my kids do is make fun of me.
Acts of antisemitism move us backwards, further from our collective goals, and further from cultivating a community wherein everyone can feel as though they are valued, respected, and most importantly, safe to practice religion and live freely in their identity.
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.
You know what Donald Trump is more afraid of than anything else? A Black man with power.
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.
Racist infrastructure has damaged districts like mine for generations.
We need to invest in our people and a livable planet if we want to build an economy that works for everyone.
We will continue our work to uphold the values within our families, communities, and institutions that our service members have fought to protect: equality, justice, opportunity, freedom, and a shared responsibility to each other.
Hip Hop is the rebirth of civilization. For people who were disconnected from their continent, from their language, from their culture, and from their ancestry, Hip Hop represented a step toward rediscovering what it means to be a Black American, or to be a Latino American.
I’ve been locked up for not having insurance, only to be released. I mean, this sort of thing is just par for the course when you’re Black or brown in America.
We need to ask ourselves what kind of systems and structures we want in place – not only for people to survive, but also to thrive and reach their full potential.
Caregiving is almost always provided by women, and especially Black and brown women. This work has historically been made invisible, which creates opportunities for the exploitation and poverty wages many of our caregivers face without protection or recourse.
The impact of poverty on our kids and their learning. That’s something I’ve understood pretty intimately throughout my career as an educator.
In using the English language to create an entirely new art form, the pioneers of Hip Hop created a vessel that grew to impact nearly every facet of American culture.
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.
Our response to crises cannot be adding more and more police funding.
My problem is white comfort with Black death. I am personally tired of white comfort with black death.
Whoever becomes Education Secretary has to have a love and passion for public schools. Not charter schools, not vouchers, but public schools.
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.
When we condemn hate, when we condemn antisemitism, we also must commit to working together to eradicate the biases within all of us that allow hate to spread, unfettered.
Nothing will ever bring back George Floyd, or any of the thousands of others we have lost to racist police violence.
I’m trying my best not to raise my children with fear of the police.
Our foreign aid to other nations should never be used to harm.
Our crumbling infrastructure disproportionately harms Black, brown, Indigenous, and low-income communities. The negative health impacts arising from fossil fuel use, industrial pollution, and toxic materials in our homes and schools are literally making us sick.
We must hire more social workers and counselors in our schools than police officers.
Losing your home is one of the most destabilizing, inhumane things a person can experience.
I’m a Black man who was raised by a single mother in a housing project. That story doesn’t usually end in Congress.
I would never try to fill John Lewis’s shoes. I can only be myself – my authentic self.
I was 11 years old when I was initially brutalized by the police, just for horse-playing with my friends and not responding to the police in the way they wanted me to.
Many elected Republicans know that ensuring that people of color can vote freely would spell bad news for them and their agenda, which privileges corporations and the wealthy.
As legislators, it’s our job to create accessible voting systems that inspire confidence in the accuracy of tabulation and verifiability of results. It’s also our job to make certain that the Board of Elections has every resource they need in order to carry out that purpose.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has endorsed and enabled a doctrine of obstructionism that’s prevented Americans from seeing the help and progress they desperately need.
The barriers to careers in STEM that people of color and traditionally underrepresented groups face need to be broken down.
Appreciating teachers means transforming the way we think about education and the way we design curriculums. It means protecting the rights of teachers to unionize and collectively bargain.
We did not go to Congress just to talk the talk – we are here to walk the walk.
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.
We can have a political system that works for the people and allows for the economy to thrive. It doesn’t have to be either.
So, I started teaching in 1999 in the South Bronx.
We need to stop sending federal military equipment to local police departments.
I remember being a young black kid in high school, I didn’t think the establishment or the political system was for me. I didn’t think the system was for me, and I know a lot of kids feel that way.
We need a federal jobs guarantee that puts everyone to work toward a green, clean renewable energy economy.
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.
We need to end qualified immunity at the federal level, where police can violate a person’s civil rights with impunity, which we’ve seen happening time and time again.
When I look at American history, I see how it has been driven by resistance and protest against a system that has been oppressive to not just Black people but to women, to members of the LGBTQ community.
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.
As we continue our fight to advance civil rights and racial justice, we need to not only recognize but celebrate how Hip Hop and Black Americans have given so much to our culture and our country.
As we deal with a devastating climate crisis caused by decades of unchecked corporate greed, we need to center our children and their future.
My number one priority is the safety of our communities, and particularly the safety of our children.
If you care about social and racial justice, innovation, and humanity, become a teacher. There are amazing kids who have unlimited potential and ideas who need someone who cares about them and their learning.
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.
Democracy, as a governing system, is built on the foundational concept that when you cast your ballot, that ballot ensures your voice, will, and perspective will be accounted for in the direction of your city, state, or country.
We have to break the cycle of structural racism, and build a truly just society for all of us.
Being a candidate who doesn’t take corporate PAC money forced me to be accountable to the people I serve and to meet them where they are.
No Republican vote in favor of an infrastructure package should supersede our mission: to build an America that works for the people, not for massive corporations. Getting Republicans on board is not necessary. Getting the American people back on their feet is.
My background is: I’m a Black man in America, victim of police brutality, victim of institutional racism, working-class from working-class roots.
