Racism and bigotry should never fuel any administration's policies. Calls to send anyone 'back' contradict who we should be as a country and the ideals for which we stand.
Interpretation
Racism and bigotry undermine the core values of a nation, contradicting its ideals.
In this quote, Deb Haaland emphasizes that policies driven by racism and bigotry are fundamentally opposed to the principles of inclusivity and equality on which the country was founded. She advocates for a society that upholds these ideals by rejecting any calls for exclusion or discrimination against individuals based on their background.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech advocating for civil rights.
In spite of our agonizing history, Native American people find much to celebrate. The songs, the dances, the culture and traditions surrounding planting and harvests, the prayers that are sent upward for healing and peace, and the welcoming of children into our families, are all reasons for us to keep moving forward with optimism.
Growing up in my mother's Pueblo household, I never imagined a world in which I would be represented by someone who looked like me.
I want every young Indigenous girl to think about getting involved in their communities. You're never too young to help with community efforts.
Native American activists have been present as long as the Europeans have been working to colonize us.
I spent my 20s earning minimum wage decorating cakes for a living. But one day, I looked in the mirror and realized I wanted more, for me and my people. I saw too many Native Americans struggling, and I realized we should have a voice in who our elected officials are.
The tenets of my cultural teachings are rooted in our commitment to lift up every community member so that no one is left behind. Work and food were shared equally. Through our commitment to community, we care about children, even when they aren't ours, and we want our old folks, and yours, to live their last days in dignity and comfort.
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.
It's always easier for people to face backward than to face forward.
The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
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