Stacey Abrams

“Many books that tell you how to achieve come from a privileged position. If you can't see yourself in the advice, how can you use it?”

“I got into my first fight, Democrat versus Republican, in second grade. I won.”

“When you're focused on your enemy, then you are ignoring your allies.”

“There are racial and gender implications to how we think about what leadership looks like in the country.”

“Writing fueled me, and my task was to make it fit into my life. I practiced my trade as an attorney, and on weekends and holidays, I typed away. I assumed a nom de plume, Selena Montgomery, to separate my fiction from more academic publications.”

“I'm not going to do class warfare; I want to be wealthy.”

“I believe we need leaders who actually want to lead everyone.”

“The marginalized did not create identity politics: their identities have been forced on them by dominant groups, and politics is the most effective method of revolt.”

“I finished my higher education deeply in debt and with seven years of bad credit in my future.”

“I fundamentally agree with the critical nature of Israeli democracy, which embraces the core notion of free speech.”

“I'm going to continue to do the work we're doing on voter suppression, supporting the work that's being done by Fair Count, ensuring a fair Census count.”

“We continue to confront racism from our past and our present, which is why we must hold everyone, from the highest offices to our own families, accountable for racist words and deeds and call racism what it is - wrong.”

“As a writer and former elected official, I believe in the power of words.”

“When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms of discrimination and mistreatment that continued to plague them - and longer still for political parties and candidates to respond to such activism.”

“The manufacturing-intensive advanced energy industry promotes work for engineers, machinists, coders and installers, but also administrators, accountants, truck drivers, sales force, and a range of other occupations.”

“When you go after someone who has a deep ideological belief set that is contradictory with your own, it's conversion. Conversion is hard. Conversion is miraculous. We have entire religions built around the idea of conversion. Politics is not a religion. Politics is about persuasion.”

“Discriminatory legislation emboldens those who seek to make us afraid while giving those communities it hurts a concrete reason to fear. We must stay away from anti-immigrant legislation as well as so-called religious freedom legislation that harms our LGBTQ communities.”

“My parents never ceased to struggle, but in witnessing their lives, I learned more about natural industry and leadership than in any classroom.”

“From making it harder to register and stay on the rolls to moving and closing polling places to rejecting lawful ballots, we can no longer ignore these threats to democracy.”

“The consequences for failure are very different if you're a woman or a person of color than they are if you're a guy. If you're a guy who makes a mistake, you get a second chance. Often, for those of us who are outsiders, we make a mistake, and that's the end of the conversation.”