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“Arguments continue over what constitutes true “identity politics” as a philosophical construct, a public policy imperative, or a flawed means of picking candidates based solely on external characteristics rather than the candidate’s own merit. Rather than engaging in a false choice, I opt to short-circuit the debate with a more simplistic view: identity is real and necessary and intertwined in our politics in such a way that there is no going back.” (Our Time Is Now Quotes)
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“Because I learned long ago that winning doesn’t always mean you get the prize. Sometimes you get progress, and that counts. This lesson has been drummed into me for most of my waking life. When it comes to voting in America, I certainly believe.”
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“By undermining confidence in the system, modern-day suppression has swapped rabid dogs and cops with billy clubs for restrictive voter ID and tangled rules for participation. And those who are most vulnerable to suppression become the most susceptible to passing on that reluctance to others.”
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“Choices are based on personal needs—end of story.”
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“Full citizenship rights are the bare minimum one should expect from the government. Yet, for two-thirds of our history, full citizenship was denied to those who built this country from theory to life. African slaves and Chinese workers and Native American environmentalists and Latino gauchos and Irish farmers—and half the population: women.”
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“I embrace identity politics because for the marginalized, the disadvantaged, and the minority groups still grappling for purchase in our politics, identity is the strongest defense against invisibility.”
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“My non-concession speech on November 16, 2018, served as a declaration of intent. We have been taught to expect concessions not only to the outcome of an electoral contest but to the system that undergirds it.”
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“The practical reality is that where you live determines your ability to marry, buy a house, get an abortion, or start a business, and creating equality in these areas has usually required federal action to guarantee basic rights. Thus, by recognizing and harnessing the power of nonfederal offices, those who long for a more homogenous, segregated bygone era have grown stronger and more resilient.”
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“The right to be seen, the right to be heard, the right to direct the course of history are markers of power.”
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“The United States must no longer be a patchwork of good, bad, and worst states for voters, a degradation of democracy based on state lines and zip codes. Being an eligible citizen should be sufficient for full participation.”
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“The vibrance of our identity politics reaffirms the complexity of our nation and the underpinning of our founding.”
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“The voting system is not just political; it is economic and social and educational. It is omnipresent and omniscient. And it is fallible. Yet, when a structure is broken, we are fools if we simply ignore the defect in favor of pretending that our democracy isn’t cracking at the seams. Our obligation is to understand where the problem is, find a solution, and make the broken whole again.” (Our Time Is Now Quotes)
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“Today, the ones barring access have shifted from using billy clubs and hoses to using convoluted rules to make it harder to register and stay on the rolls, cast a ballot, or have that ballot counted. To move forward, we must understand the extent to which the shrinking conservative minority will go to create barriers to democracy.”
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“Victory must begin to mean more than winning a single election. Our obligation, in Georgia and across the nation, is to seize the high road by changing how we campaign and to whom. Demography is not destiny; it’s opportunity. We have to expand our vision of who belongs in the big tent of progress, invest in their inclusion, and talk to them about what’s at stake.”
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“Voter suppression works its might by first tripping and causing to stumble the unwanted voter, then by convincing those who see the obstacle course to forfeit the race without even starting to run.”
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“Voters will never agree with everything you say, but they get excited to know that a politician is willing to tell them the truth. They want to trust that a candidate won’t suppress their values to try to appeal to a specific group. A voter wants to know that the one in whom they invest their time and trust is an authentic candidate who stands on the values that they hold.”
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“Voting is a constitutional right in the United States, a right that has been reiterated three separate times via constitutional amendment.”
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“Voting rights are the most basic tenet of our democracy, and the bare minimum one should expect from the government.”
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“We are strongest when we see the most vulnerable in our society, bear witness to their struggles, and then work to create systems to make it better”
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“We paid our canvassers a living wage, and we trained them on scripts that spoke about jobs, health care, justice, education, the environment, and housing. The campaign scaled up our already large and diverse in-house filmmaking and digital team, again using core, consistent messaging with the widest array of communication tools.”
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
“Yet, from limiting original voting rights to white men, to the elitist and racist origins of the Electoral College, American democracy has always left people out of participation, by design.”
Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now
