Nina Turner

“Environmental justice is vitally important to the mission of Our Revolution.”

“Voter fraud is almost non-existent. People don't just show up on election day, trying to impersonate other people.”

“You know, women not making dollar for dollar the same as a man is not new. It's been that way since day zero, since the founding of this country. And when you put African-American women and Hispanic women into the mix it's even worse than that.”

“There is a cost for democracy. It is worth the cost when it comes to opening up access for voters.”

“We tell people to go to college, but when they cross the stage, they cross the stage with a degree in one hand and debt in the other that stifles their ability to be able to live that good life.”

“It is a travesty for anyone who is elected to office, who serves in an elective office, to engage in voter suppression.”

“My grandmother bought me a set of Encyclopedia Britannica's when I was little, and I remember sitting on the floor reading through these just dreaming of all the possibilities. My mind would always go toward me becoming a nurse or a teacher because, even back then, I knew I wanted to do my part to make the world a richer place.”

“The best way to build a house is not from the top, but from the bottom. When you go to the polls, vote from the bottom up.”

“People are sitting at their kitchen table talking about how they're going to pay their bills, and we can speak to the hearts of people on that and show them that we respect them. Ultimately, that's how we have to talk to them. We can't talk down to them.”

“You would think people who call themselves pro-life would want to make sure that our children are educated, that people could work and live a good life, that you can take a vacation every now and then.”

“A community belongs to those who take ownership of it.”

“Democracy is stronger, is better, is more robust when people participate. We should want to encourage that.”

“It is my hope that the establishment part of the Democratic Party will heed what the grass roots is saying.”

“If we want to be the big-tent party, if we want to be the party that is seen as the party that really stands up for the working class, we have to welcome people in and not just believe a certain way.”

“I've proven myself a champion of workers' rights, particularly teachers.”

“The folks in this counrty need somebody that will stand up for them.”

“All of the great social justice advances that we ever had in this country have come not from people with big titles and not from people at the top, but just from everyday people getting together saying 'Enough is enough. I'm going to change this, and I'm going to get involved, and I am going to be engaged.'”

“More than my political affiliation, I consider myself a hellraising humanitarian. Hell raising in the sense that I don't just go along to get along.”

“Redistricting reform is one of the most important issues we can tackle.”

“Global warming is a real threat to our communities, to everybody, to everything.”