I will never apologize for standing up against oppression and injustice in Israel or anywhere else. Ilhan Omar Read Quote
I was always made aware of inequality in society, that there was a class system. In Somalia, we have clan structures. My mother’s family is ethnically not Somali, and so we spoke often about what it meant to be ‘other’ in that way. Ilhan Omar Read Quote
The house I was born in in Somalia was right next to a big market. A lot of beggars or panhandlers would be in front of our house constantly, and my grandfather and grandmother would always invite them in to have food with us and have them take whatever was left over. Ilhan Omar Read Quote
I grew up under a dictatorship. I knew what it meant for people to not have the ability to freely express themselves. Ilhan Omar Read Quote
We need to be constantly reminded that this is a representative democracy, and we need to be in tune to what people are talking about. Ilhan Omar Read Quote
We can all agree that we need to be helping small businesses. All of us can agree that the cost of higher education is too high, and college debt is too big of a burden for young people. Ilhan Omar Read Quote
I grew up in a household where we all celebrated who we were. There was no space to make people feel different or ‘less than.’ Ilhan Omar Read Quote
