Quotes About Representation

We launched our #WomenWhoWork initiative to show the world what today's modern, professional women really look like. They're invested in their careers, but they're also passionate about priorities outside the office.

Nothing is more infuriating to me than the way the media and political parties conflate Hispanic-Americans and illegal immigrants. We are not one and the same, and our interests and priorities are often very different.

My main priorities were to fight for Britain. Not a lot of Asians get selected for this country at anything, and it's a great achievement.

I want to fight hard for the values and priorities of my district.

I am committed to doing everything I can to represent the priorities of all Mississippians, and will continue to work to advance the needs of our state and the nation.

My constituency is my top priority.

Playing for England is always the main priority.

And so it became a priority for me to make sure that all Asian Canadians or Asian Americans or wherever you are, Asian Australians, felt like they belonged.

Death row prisoners face enormous challenges in finding lawyers who will assist them.

In U.S. discourse, immigrants are mostly represented as less than human, a policy problem, or as just that, a category, and categories are prisons.

There's nothing that makes me feel better than being on these mainstream shows, whether it's 'The View,' 'Colbert' or whatever, and saying, 'It's a privilege to be black.' Oh, I love that.

It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.

It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate.

When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.

It's been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania.

I feel lucky that I get the privilege of serving in the Senate.

I was never able to be a part of U.S.A. Basketball in high school or college. So for me, it's a privilege.

It is an honor and privilege to serve as a member of the 116th Congress.

As a white woman with a privileged education, I'm keenly aware that I founded an organization that can only realize its goal if it enlists many more leaders who share the backgrounds of the students and families we work with.

Looking back on it, when I was eight or nine, of course I did see myself on TV, so in a way, I was privileged.

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?

When you restore democracy, you cannot say that only those who worked for the restoration of democracy will be allowed to use the privileges of a democracy.

What I'm trying to do in all senses is deconstruct our idea of gender and use the privileges that come with looking like a model to bring attention to that.

As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down, never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.