“Having a strong race lens means you understand racism is threaded thro...” — Pramila Jayapal Quote

“Having a strong race lens means you understand racism is threaded through and institutionalized in all of our systems and our very perceptions, threaded through how someone looks at you, treats you, thinks about you and your potential.”

“We don't get a more responsive government unless we start to systematically run organizing campaigns to change the way government works.”

“I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the minimum wage in Washington state my first year in the state senate, and I really believe that raising the federal minimum wage, while not the answer to everything, addresses a lot of the issues at the very bottom.”

“I don't really have any interest in recording at places that are institutionalized for recording.”

“I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.”

“Institutionalized racism has been with us pre-Obama, and it obviously will be with us post-Obama.”