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Checkout quotes by Ayanna Pressley on Work

• ‟ For me, whatever vantage point that I'm serving, I'm going to be an advocate and do the work to actualize my values.

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• ‟ There's many law changes, policy changes I can point to. But a lot of my work has also been to name the issue that no one else named - to spotlight it, to advocate for it. That's where all advocacy begins. I've asked different questions. I've raised different issues.

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• ‟ My life as an advocate for those most in need is inspired by my mother's example. She believed in the potential inherent in each of us, and that belief is the foundation of my work.

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• ‟ If elected, I will work with federal leaders to rehouse the non-immigration enforcement functions of ICE - including human trafficking and money laundering investigations - elsewhere in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security while immediately eliminating funding for enforcement and removal functions.

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• ‟ People entrust me with the responsibility of actualizing our shared values and, that said, I'm not in the business of going to try to convert people and getting their buy-in. I just do the work.

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• ‟ I'm an only child. My mother was raising me alone. We couldn't afford child care; child care hours didn't work according to her schedule.

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• ‟ I've not been a decisively re-elected city councilor and top vote-getter three times because I haven't done the work and because I don't work hard.

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• ‟ My mother lost her job, so I left school to work full-time to support her.

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