What’s important for my daughter to know is that…if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well. – Kamala Harris
Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time. – Kamala Harris
I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies. – Kamala Harris
I grew up hearing stories about my grandmother – my mother’s mother – who used to go to villages in India in her little VW bug. My grandmother would take a bullhorn and make sure women in these villages knew how to access birth control. – Kamala Harris
People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives. – Kamala Harris
There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me. – Kamala Harris
I’m opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period. – Kamala Harris
When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered. – Kamala Harris
Let’s speak the truth: People are protesting because Black people have been treated as less than human in America. Because our country has never fully addressed the systemic racism that has plagued our country since its earliest days. It is the duty of every American to fix. No longer can some wait on the sidelines, hoping for incremental change. In times like this, silence is complicity. – Kamala Harris In opinion piece in Cosmopolitan magazine.
I’ve been a proud mentor to many women seeking public office, because I believe we need more women at all levels of government. Women have an equal stake in our future and should have an equal voice in our politics. These are challenging times, but I believe getting more women to run for office is a big part of the solution. – Kamala Harris
We cannot tolerate a perspective that is about going backward and not understanding women have agency. Women have value. Women have authority to make decisions about their own lives and their own bodies. – Kamala Harris
Don’t give up – our country needs you now more than ever. This is a pivotal moment in the history of our country: Our ideals are at stake, and we all have to fight for who we are. We are all, and should be treated as, equals, but the disparity in terms of income and inequality, for women and women of colour, is significant. – Kamala Harris
Our party is not white or Black, Hispanic or Asian, immigrant or indigenous. It is all of us. – Kamala Harris
A patriot is not someone who condones the conduct of our country whatever it does. It is someone who fights every day for the ideals of the country, whatever it takes. – Kamala Harris The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.
Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work…We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred, and the mistrust. – Kamala Harris The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.
For as long as ours has been a nation of immigrants, we have been a nation that fears immigrants. Fear of the other is woven into the fabric of our American culture, and unscrupulous people in power have exploited that fear in pursuit of political advantage. – Kamala Harris The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.
Years from now, our children and our grandchildren will look up and lock eyes with us. They will ask us where we were when the stakes were so high. They will ask us what it was like. I don’t want us to just tell them how we felt. I want us to tell them what we did. – Kamala Harris The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.
My daily challenge to myself is to be part of the solution, to be a joyful warrior in the battle to come. My challenge to you is to join that effort. To stand up for our ideals and our values. Let’s not throw up our hands when it’s time to roll up our sleeves. Not now. Not tomorrow. Not ever. – Kamala Harris The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.
For too long, we’d been told there were only two options: to be either tough on crime or soft on crime – an oversimplification that ignored the realities of public safety. You can want the police to stop crime in your neighborhood and also want them to stop using excessive force. You can want them to hunt down a killer on your streets and also want them to stop using racial profiling. You can believe in the need for consequence and accountability, especially for serious criminals, and also oppose unjust incarceration. I believed it was essential to weave all these varied strands together. – Kamala Harris The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.
In the years to come, what matters most is that we see ourselves in one another’s struggles. – Kamala Harris The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.
Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk. – Kamala Harris
With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime. – Kamala Harris
To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It’s not realistic to think you can do it overnight. – Kamala Harris
My mother had a saying: ‘Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.’ – Kamala Harris
Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It’s a marathon. – Kamala Harris
I’m a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I’ve done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that’s just responsible. – Kamala Harris
