Words matter. These are the best Nina Turner Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If we want to be the big-tent party, if we want to be the party that is seen as the party that really stands up for the working class, we have to welcome people in and not just believe a certain way.
Democracy is stronger, is better, is more robust when people participate. We should want to encourage that.
Women are outfundraised. Why? Because men have been doing it a lot longer. And, so not only do they have entry into the money, they have connections that a lot of women don’t. Women are a lot older most of the times when they run for office because of the stigma.
We have a problem with our democracy when you have election officials deliberately trying to take away the fundamental right to vote in this country in the 21st century.
Global warming is a real threat to our communities, to everybody, to everything.
As the quintessential swing state, Ohio has been on the front lines of battles to restrict access to the vote and make government less transparent. Conservatives know that they can’t win without putting a thumb on the scale of electoral outcomes.
Making it harder for the most vulnerable voters to participate in the political process inevitably leads to policies and policymakers that do not represent the interests of all people.
The vote is the last great equalizer that we have in this country.
We have an obligation to each other to not only push our politicians but to push companies to do right by their workers.
It is my hope that the establishment part of the Democratic Party will heed what the grass roots is saying.
It is imperative that Democrats take a stand and embrace Medicare for All and other progressive policies that address the needs of millions of Americans.
You have a voice, you have a vote. Use it.
If not for food stamps, Medicaid, and various job programs, I would never have gone on to be the first in my family to go to college, the first black woman to represent my ward on the Cleveland City Council, and, ultimately, a State Senator.
As a female candidate, you always expect that some people will think you are not as capable of being an executive, or that you may be ‘too emotional’ for office. As an African-American woman, the bar can be even higher.
Most men that run for office wake up in the morning and say, I am worthy to be the president of the United States of America. I want women to channel their inner man and say, Oh yeah, I am worthy.
You never get to too big to phone bank, that’s my opinion.
My mother raised me herself, along with my six younger siblings, in Cleveland, and life wasn’t easy even in the best of times. At age 42, she died, and it fell on me, then aged 22 and working minimum wage, to take care of all of us. At the time, I was newly married with a baby son. And I was deeply afraid for our future.
A government reflects the views of those who select it, and if people are unable to cast their ballot because the voting hours aren’t convenient for them or because other hurdles have been raised too high we get a less representative government as a result.
I was 22 when my mother died; my baby sister was 12. We had nothing. We had each other, but we had nothing.
We can’t solve all of our problems in a short time.
The issues that matter to women also matter to communities… and these issues have a ripple effect all across the country. And the purist sense of the feminist tradition – feminism is not anti-man. It is pro-humanity.
Any Democrat worth their salt that doesn’t unequivocally say Medicare-for-all is the way to go? To me, there’s something wrong with them.
We live in a country that sent people to the moon. This accomplishment, along with other bold leaps of faith, required political will, determination and imagination. Providing health care for all of our citizens requires the same force of will.
I’m a Democrat, and that’s worth fighting for.
Strong communities start at the ballot box – where every eligible Ohioan has the opportunity to make their voice heard.
All of the great social justice advances that we ever had in this country have come not from people with big titles and not from people at the top, but just from everyday people getting together saying ‘Enough is enough. I’m going to change this, and I’m going to get involved, and I am going to be engaged.’
I think I have a lot to offer.
I am on a mission to help make this world a better place.
We are the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have a Medicare for All type of program, and that’s an idea whose time has come. It is the morally right thing to do.
The right to vote is an important guarantee by itself, but it is what those votes add up to that matters even more. These votes shape the government under which we live.
We tell people to go to college, but when they cross the stage, they cross the stage with a degree in one hand and debt in the other that stifles their ability to be able to live that good life.
It is un-American, it is unjust to target any group of folks whether they are African-American, Hispanic, poor or elderly when it comes to access to the vote.
Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.
Any new venture, you gonna have some bumps in the road.
It is a travesty for anyone who is elected to office, who serves in an elective office, to engage in voter suppression.
My family was always there for me, and believe in me whether I have a title or not.
Does being practical mean we prop up a legal system that’s unfair, that bears its weight down on black men and black women, and by extension if you are Hispanic or indigenous or poor? Does being practical mean you don’t say to the American people you deserve better than you’re getting? That’s not the practical we want.
Ohio is my home, always. I’m a homegirl. Ohio is my home. Ohio is my first love.
I’m interested in running for an office that would allow me the opportunity to work harder and do a better job for the citizens of this state, and I will not rule out any office that gives me that ability.
Same way we have enough money to bail out Wall Street, we need to put a down payment on Main Street.
The folks in this counrty need somebody that will stand up for them.
You would think people who call themselves pro-life would want to make sure that our children are educated, that people could work and live a good life, that you can take a vacation every now and then.
Our Revolution has been the keeper of the flame doing the vital work of building a grassroots movement that leverages the people’s agenda.
The best way to build a house is not from the top, but from the bottom. When you go to the polls, vote from the bottom up.
People are sitting at their kitchen table talking about how they’re going to pay their bills, and we can speak to the hearts of people on that and show them that we respect them. Ultimately, that’s how we have to talk to them. We can’t talk down to them.
The men in our lives, including members of the General Assembly, generously devote time to fundamental female reproductive issues. The least we can do is return the favor.
Often in America, access to the freedoms and privileges guaranteed under the Constitution are determined by ZIP code.
I’m the same Nina Turner, whether I’m on MSNBC or talking to my hometown newspaper or CNN.
The GOP will not be satisfied until women are barefoot, pregnant and back home by 5 o’clock P.M. to cook dinner.
My mother was born into a solidly middle-class family, but, as all too many Americans understand, everything doesn’t always go as planned – no matter how hard you work. She died on welfare. Without the support of the state, I shudder to think of where we would have ended up.
If there is a Republican or a Libertarian or Green Party person that believes in Medicare for all, then that’s our kind of person.
A community belongs to those who take ownership of it.
Cleveland is my hometown.
I’ve proven myself a champion of workers’ rights, particularly teachers.
Never did I think I would live to see the day Jim Crow was resurrected, making repeat appearances in the South. And he has packed his bags, and he has moved North. Something is wrong.
