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Cory Booker Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“Do not give into this world and let the world set your measure of what is great; let the world set your standards. You have genius, you have greatness, you have glory, you have power inside of you that must be unleashed into the community. Do not settle. Do not yield. You have a truth that must be told.”
— Cory Booker, Commencement Address at Pitzer College, 2010
Tagged: Graduation, Commencement, Speech
“This is a system that just grinds people into it who are the most vulnerable. You know, you can judge a lot by a country by who they incarcerate.”
— Cory Booker, Sen. Cory Booker Promises To Bring America Together. But How?
Tagged: justice system, Incarceration
“People who preach racism and bigotry for their own political power try to slice and divide this country against itself.”
— Cory Booker, Transcript: Sen. Cory Booker on "Face the Nation," July 21, 2019
Tagged: racism, bigotry, Political Power, Division
“Right now, someone in your world needs an act of generosity, a kind deed, or just an empathetic ear. Changing your world changes the world.”
— Cory Booker, via twitter.com
Tagged: Change, kindness, goodness in the world, change starts with you, changing the world, Life, Inspirational
“We were one vote shy from bringing down Medicare eligibility to 55. One vote shy. I'm going to fight for that one vote when I'm running in 2020, because what would that have done?”
— Cory Booker, Sen. Cory Booker Promises To Bring America Together. But How?
Tagged: Medicare, Democracy
“Don’t feel powerless, ever.”
— Cory Booker, Cory Booker — Street Fights, 10-Day Hunger Strikes, and Creative Problem-Solving
Tagged: Tim Podcast, powerless
“The founders were imperfect geniuses. They wrote a lot of our bigotries into [the Constitution]. ... If you think about how we have overcome those things, it's always been by creating, first, calls to consciousness, speaking truth about the injustices, and then bringing together those uncommon coalitions.”
— Cory Booker, Sen. Cory Booker Promises To Bring America Together. But How?
Tagged: Founding Fathers, US Constitution, Injustice
“Why do we need to universally condemn entire sectors of our society, as opposed to talking about what's happening within them that is in violation of values and creating regulations and rules that make sure that they are affirming what's in the best interest of our country?”
— Cory Booker, Sen. Cory Booker Promises To Bring America Together. But How?
Tagged: Rules, regulations
“We are a nation of conscience, and I found partners on the other side of the aisle who agree with me on these issues. And we can build from there. In fact, when I first came to the Senate, people laughed. I had people telling me, 'There's no way you're going to get a comprehensive criminal justice reform bill done.'”
— Cory Booker, Sen. Cory Booker Promises To Bring America Together. But How?
Tagged: Conscience, senate, criminal justice
“This president is yet another sad chapter, but what we have done all the time as Americans, black and white, from different backgrounds, we've always joined together and beaten those demagogues hate—hate mongers and fear mongers and I think that's where Donald Trump will be relegated.”
— Cory Booker, Transcript: Sen. Cory Booker on "Face the Nation," July 21, 2019
Tagged: Donald Trump, Hate, Demagogue
“There are some countries that incarcerate political opposition, some countries that incarcerate the media ... but if you look at our prisons and jails we incarcerate overwhelmingly the addicted, mentally ill, low-income, low-income, low-income folks ... and then disproportionately people of color.”
— Cory Booker, Sen. Cory Booker Promises To Bring America Together. But How?
Tagged: justice system, Incarceration, mental, People of color, Low-Cut
“They call the person that was showing me around and said, 'Hey we're a Christian family. We can't have Cory Booker in our home.' Because we have these outrage machines that are making the highest corporate profits they've ever made, because of their telling us to hate each other so much.”
— Cory Booker, Sen. Cory Booker Promises To Bring America Together. But How?
Tagged: Christian, Corporate Profit, Outrage Machines
“I don't care about politics. I care about my nation.”
— Cory Booker, Transcript: Sen. Cory Booker on "Face the Nation," July 21, 2019
Tagged: Politics, Nationalism
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