“When you are shifting culture and ushering in new paradigms and challenging thinking, and people are still stuck in a very specific way of doing things, you can’t be mad at them. But I just think, given what’s happening in Washington, that we have to be disruptive.”— Ayanna Pressley, politico.comTagged: The Squad, Culture, paradigms, Washington DC
“If folks are going to be about the business of rolling back every civil right protection bit of progress that we’ve made, decades of progress, what I’m going to be focused on is fighting like hell to make it very hard for them — and very painful — every step of the way.”— Ayanna Pressley, politico.comTagged: The Squad, Civil Rights, Progress
“If politics is like dog years, you know, I’m probably 80 right now. Even though I’m only 44.”— Ayanna Pressley, politico.comTagged: The Squad, Politics, Dog Years