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Kamala Harris
Kamala Devi Harris (, KAH-mə-lə; born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and lawyer of the Democratic Party serving as the junior United States Senator from California since 2017. She previously was the 32nd Attorney General of California from 2011 to 2017. Harris graduated from Howard University and UC Hastings. After working in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and City Attorney's Office Harris was elected District Attorney of San Francisco. Harris was elected California's Attorney General in 2010 and reelected in 2014. On November 8, 2016, she defeated Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 Senate election to succeed outgoing Senator Barbara Boxer, becoming California's third female U.S. Senator and the first of Jamaican and Indian descent. During her tenure, she has generally opposed President Donald Trump's policies. 2Early life and education Harris was born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California to a Tamil Indian mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris (1938–2009), and a Jamaican father, Donald Harris. Her mother was a prominent breast cancer researcher, who emigrated from Chennai, India, in 1960, and her father a Stanford University economics professor, who emigrated from Jamaica in 1961 for graduate study in economics at University of California, Berkeley. Her name, Kamalā comes from the Sanskrit word Kamala (Lotus Flower) that means "She of the Lotus" another name of Lakshmi, the Hindu Goddess of prosperity whose seat is a lotus flowe
The United States of America is not about us versus them.
We are here because the American Dream and our American democracy are under attack and on the line like never before. We are here at this moment in time because we must answer a fundamental question. Who are we? Who are we as Americans? So, let's answer that question to the world and each other…
When American families are barely living paycheck to paycheck, what is this administration's response? Their response is to try to take away healthcare from millions of families. Their response is to give away a trillion dollars to the biggest corporations in this country. And their response is to…
Let's speak the truth that too many unarmed black men and women are killed in America. Too many black and brown Americans are locked up. From mass incarceration to cash bail to policing, our criminal justice system needs drastic repair.
I knew our criminal justice system was deeply flawed. I knew that the people in our society who are most often targeted by predators are also most often the voiceless and vulnerable. And I believed then as I do now, that no one should be left to fight alone.
We have foreign powers infecting the White House like malware.
When we lift up the women of our country, we lift up the children of our country. We lift up the families of our country. And the whole of society benefits.
When we have leaders who lie and bully and attack a free press and undermine our democratic institutions, that's not our America.
On the subject of transnational gangs, let's be perfectly clear: The President's medieval vanity project is not going to stop them.
My whole life, I've only had one client: the people.
We were raised in a community where we were taught to see a world, beyond just ourselves. To be conscious and compassionate about the struggles of all people.
People in power are trying to convince us that the villain in our American story is each other. But that is not our story.
To be sure we've won and we've lost, but we've never stopped fighting.
I'll tell you, sitting across the table from the big banks, I witnessed the arrogance of power. Wealthy bankers accusing innocent homeowners of fault, as if Wall Street's mess was of the people's making.
Fighting for the people meant fighting on behalf of survivors of sexual assault—a fight not just against predators but a fight against silence and stigma.
Let’s speak the truth that too many unarmed black men and women are killed in America. Too many black and brown Americans are locked up. From mass incarceration to cash bail to policing, our criminal justice system needs drastic repair. Let’s speak that truth.
America, we are better than this.
My whole life, I’ve only had one client: the people.
You see, in our system of justice, we believe that a harm against any one of us is a harm against all of us. That’s why when we file a case, it’s not filed in the name of the victim. It reads, 'The People.’