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Ilhan Omar Quotes

Total quotes: 31
“In America, no one should die because they can’t afford healthcare.”
— Ilhan Omar, Rep. Omar introduces plan to lower drug prices
Tagged: Healthcare, Shame, Wealth, The Squad
“ We don’t want anybody to get away with murder because they are polished. We want to recognize the actual policies that are behind the pretty face and the smile.”
— Ilhan Omar, The Democrats’ Dilemma
Tagged: Superficiality, appearances, The Squad
“It is a mark of shame that in the wealthiest country in the world people are dying because they can’t afford lifesaving medicine.”
— Ilhan Omar, Rep. Omar introduces plan to lower drug prices
Tagged: Healthcare, Shame, Wealth, The Squad
“Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel. #Gaza #Palestine #Israel”
— Ilhan Omar, Ilhan Omar on Twitter
Tagged: Israel, Allah, Evil, The Squad
“And so, when people say ‘you are bringing hate,’ I know what their intention is. Their intention is to make sure that our lights are dimmed. That we walk around with our heads bowed. That we lower our face and our voice.”
— Ilhan Omar, What Did Ilhan Omar Say?
Tagged: Hate, silencing, deplatforming, The Squad
“It doesn’t matter how good you are if you one day find yourself in a school where other religions are talked about, but when Islam is mentioned, we are only talking about terrorists.”
— Ilhan Omar, Read the transcript of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s speech
Tagged: Religion, School, Terrorists, Islamophobia, Islam, The Squad
“They can attack, spin my words and vilify me, but they will not succeed in silencing me!”
— Ilhan Omar, Ilhan Omar on Twitter
Tagged: Character Assault, Media Attacks, Media Spin, The Squad
“We’re here, we’re here to stay and represent the voice of the people who have been silenced for many decades and generations.”
— Ilhan Omar, Reps. Omar and Tlaib: Anti-Semitism charges shut down criticism of Israel- Jewish Insider
Tagged: Voice of the People, Generations, Silenced, The Squad
“Our homelessness crisis is not a crisis of scarcity, but a crisis of moral clarity.”
— Ilhan Omar, Ilhan Omar on Twitter
Tagged: Morality, Homelessness In America, The Squad
“I am much more interested in defending my ideas than defending my identities.”
— Ilhan Omar, Ilhan Omar's influence already expanding in Congress
Tagged: Ideas, Identity, Hijab, The Squad
“This is a man who has deep-seated animosity and hatred, who feels so small, who works so hard to make others feel beneath him and so I think it is even ludicrous for us to have the space to dignify what he says with an answer.”
— Ilhan Omar, Gayle King's interview with "the Squad": Read the full transcript
Tagged: Donald Trump, Hate, Appeal to Motive, The Squad
“I support a two-state solution—with an Israeli state side by side with a Palestinian state. That said, I will never apologize for standing up against oppression and injustice in Israel or anywhere else.”
— Ilhan Omar, Ilhan Omar
Tagged: Israel, Palestine, Oppression, Two State Solution, The Squad
“So when I see Israel institute laws that recognize it as a Jewish state and does not recognize the other religions that are living in it and we still uphold it as a democracy in the Middle East, I almost chuckle...”
— Ilhan Omar, New Muslim congresswoman Omar says US should ‘call out’ Israel like it does Iran
Tagged: Israel, The Squad
“And what I am fearful of is that because Rashida and I are Muslim, that a lot of Jewish colleagues, a lot of our Jewish constituents, a lot of our allies, go to thinking that everything we say about Israel, to be anti-Semitic, because we are Muslim. And so to me, it is something that becomes designed to end the debate.”
— Ilhan Omar, What Did Ilhan Omar Say?
Tagged: Muslim, Jewish, Rashida Tlaib, Anti-Semitic, The Squad
“There’s a direct correlation between corporations that are getting rich, and the fact that we have students who are shackled with debt. There is a direct correlation between the White House and the people who are benefiting from detention beds that are profitized [sic].”
— Ilhan Omar, What Did Ilhan Omar Say?
Tagged: Corporations, Student Debt, White House, Profit, The Squad
“What is really important to me is that people recognize that there is a difference between criticizing a military action by a government that has exercised really oppressive policies and being offensive or attacking to particular people of faith.”
— Ilhan Omar, Rep. Ilhan Omar defends 2012 tweet accusing Israel of 'evil doings'- Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Tagged: Israel, Anti-Semitism, Zionism, Middle East, The Squad
“So to me, I say, raise hell; make people uncomfortable.”
— Ilhan Omar, Read the transcript of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s speech
Tagged: raise hell, The Squad
“Our democracy is built on debate, Congresswoman! I should not be expected to have allegiance/pledge support to a foreign country in order to serve my country in Congress or serve on committee. The people of the 5th elected me to serve their interest. I am sure we agree on that!”
— Ilhan Omar, Twitter—Ilhan Omar
Tagged: Democracy, Debate, Congress, Israel, The Squad
“We do want to create a system that is of the people, for the people. Many of the policies that we advocate, whether it is Medicare for all, or cancelling out student debt, or dealing with our climate crisis, most of those policies poll at 70 percent plus.”
— Ilhan Omar, Gayle King's interview with "the Squad": Read the full transcript
Tagged: Student Debt, Medicare, Climate Change, The Squad
“Seeking asylum is NOT illegal.”
— Ilhan Omar, Asylum
Tagged: Political Asylum, The Squad
“I have taken I think every single opportunity I've gotten to make sure that people understand that my work and one of my responsibilities is to make sure that we are dealing with the issue of anti-Semitism. That as I fight hard to deal with Islamophobia that I am going to do the same thing because I understand that both of our communities are under threat with white supremacy.”
— Ilhan Omar, Gayle King's interview with "the Squad": Read the full transcript
Tagged: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, White Supremacy, The Squad
“No, we know what hate looks like. We experience it every single day. [applause] We have to deal with death threats. I have colleagues who talk about death threats. And sometimes… there are cities in my state where the gas stations have written on their bathrooms ‘assassinate Ilhan Omar.’ I have people driving around my district looking for my home, for my office, causing me harm.”
— Ilhan Omar, What Did Ilhan Omar Say?
Tagged: Hate, Death Threats, The Squad
“But we never really allow space for the stories of Palestinians seeking safety and sanctuary to be uplifted. And to me, it is the dehumanization and the silencing of a particular pain and suffering of people, should not be OK and normal. And you can’t be in the practice of humanizing and uplifting the suffering of one, if you’re not willing to do that for everyone.”
— Ilhan Omar, What Did Ilhan Omar Say?
Tagged: Palestinians, Pain, Suffering, The Squad
“So for me, I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country. And I want to ask, why is it OK for me to talk about the influence of the NRA, of fossil fuel industries, or Big Pharma, and not talk about a powerful lobby that is influencing policy?”
— Ilhan Omar, What Did Ilhan Omar Say?
Tagged: NRA, Big Pharma, Fossil Fuel Industries, Lobbying, The Squad
“Far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen, and frankly, I’m tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it. CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.”
— Ilhan Omar, Republicans are taking Ilhan Omar’s comments on 9/11 out of context to smear her
Tagged: CAIR, 911, The Squad
“To me, it’s something that becomes designed to end the debate because you get in this space of – yes, I know what intolerance looks like and I’m sensitive when someone says, ‘The words you used Ilhan, are resemblance of intolerance.’ And I am cautious of that and I feel pained by that. But it’s almost as if, every single time we say something regardless of what it is we say…we get to be labeled something. And that ends the discussion. Because we end up defending that and nobody ever gets to have the broader debate of what is happening with Palestine. So for me, I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is okay to push for allegiance to a foreign country.”
— Ilhan Omar, Reps. Omar and Tlaib: Anti-Semitism charges shut down criticism of Israel- Jewish Insider
Tagged: intolerance, Anti-Semitism, Palestine, Israel
“So I know many [Members of Congress] were fighting for people to be free, for people to live in dignity in South Africa… So I know that they care about these things. But now that you have two Muslims who are saying, here is a group of people that we want to make sure that they have the dignity that you want everybody else to have, we get to be called names and we get to be labeled as hateful. No we know what hate looks like!”
— Ilhan Omar, Reps. Omar and Tlaib: Anti-Semitism charges shut down criticism of Israel- Jewish Insider
Tagged: intolerance, Anti-Semitism, South Africa, Hateful, Muslims
“As much as other people are uncomfortable, I’m excited about the change in tone that has taken place that is extremely positive … and my ability, I think, to agitate our foreign policy discussions in a way that many of my colleagues who have been anti-intervention, antiwar have been unable to do in the pas. So, I’m OK with taking the blows if it means it will ignite conversations that no one was willing to have before.”
— Ilhan Omar, Rep. Ilhan Omar criticizes Obama and past presidents’ ‘really bad policies’
Tagged: Political Debate, tone, antiwar
“I know that I have a huge Jewish constituency, and you know, every time I meet with them they share stories of [the] safety and sanctuary that they would love for the people of Israel, and most of the time when we’re having the conversation, there is no actual relative that they speak of, and there still is lots of emotion that comes through because it’s family, right? Like my children still speak of Somalia with passion and compassion even though they don’t have a family member there.”
— Ilhan Omar, What Did Ilhan Omar Say?
Tagged: Israel, Somalia, Jewish, Passion, Compassion
“I believe that healthcare is a basic human right. And the right to healthcare extends to being able to access prescription drugs at an affordable price. Americans pay the highest prices to access drugs in the world—including three times the price of drugs in Great Britain alone. Instead of taking donations from the pharmaceutical industry, we need to hold them accountable for taking advantage of the American people.”
— Ilhan Omar, Rep. Omar introduces plan to lower drug prices
Tagged: Healthcare, human rights, Great Britain, Big Pharma
“Most of the things that have always been aggravating to me is that we have had a policy that makes one superior... When I see Israel institute... law that recognizes it as a Jewish state and does not recognize... the other religions that are living in it and we still uphold it as a democracy in the Middle East, I almost chuckle because I know that if... we see that in any other society we would criticize it... We would call it out... We do that to Iran.”
— Ilhan Omar, WATCH: Ilhan Omar Suggests Israel Should Not Be Allowed To Exist As Jewish State, Suggests Not A 'Democracy'
Tagged: Israel, Jewish State, Ethnostate, Democracy, Middle East
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