For me, whatever vantage point that I'm serving, I'm going to be an advocate and do the work to actualize my values. Ayanna Pressley More Quotes by Ayanna Pressley More Quotes From Ayanna Pressley Haitian lives are black lives, and if we truly believe that black lives matter, then we must reverse course. Ayanna Pressley We can not and we must not look away in this moment. Ayanna Pressley The disproportionate impact of the student debt crisis is weighed heaviest on Black and Brown borrowers. Ayanna Pressley The United States needs to take responsibility for the violence that we are supporting, we can’t advance this idea that we’re some neutral party in this situation if our actions are consistently targeting Palestinians. Ayanna Pressley For those that continue to feign great surprise about what happened on January 6. As a Black woman, to be barricaded in my office, using office furniture and water bottles on the ground in the dark that terror, those moments of terror, is familiar in a deep and ancestral way for me, i want us to do everything to ensure that a breach like this never occurs at the Capitol, but I want us to address the evil and scourge that is White supremacy in this nation. This is not only about securing the Capitol to ensure that members and our staffs and custodial staff and food service workers are safe in the Capitol. It is that we are safe in America. Ayanna Pressley If we really believe that this is a moment of reckoning in every way then we must act accordingly, and that means that Donald J. Trump must be held accountable because he is culpable for having incited this insurrection by perpetuating this' big lie,' this House has twice done This House job. He will forever be the twice-impeached President by this Democratic majority-led This House. Ayanna Pressley Make the phone calls, send the emails, show up, you know, there needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there’s unrest in our lives. Ayanna Pressley If you really want to honor the life of John Lewis, you don't do things like gut the fair housing laws. You don't sow the seeds of division. And you don't delay bringing the voting rights advancement act, named after John Lewis, to the floor. Ayanna Pressley I was hoping the President would not even tweet yesterday about John Lewis. At this point we don't need anybody's sympathies or tweets. What we need is action, if you really want to honor the life of John Lewis, you don't do things like gut the fair housing laws. You don't sow the seeds of division. And you don't delay bringing the Voting Rights Advancement Act named after John Lewis to the floor. And that should be brought to the floor immediately. Ayanna Pressley Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez added. The fourth squad member, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., said Ayanna Pressley didnt want to give anyone the opportunity to weaponized images of Ayanna Pressley making disapproving faces at the president into internet memes. I wanted to control my own narrative, my own image. Ayanna Pressley
