QUOTABLE SENTENCES FRASES CITABLES IMMIGRANTS ARE ESSENTIAL TO WHO WE ARE AS A NATION AND CRITICAL TO OUR ECONOMIC RECOVER “LOS INMIGRANTES SON ESENCIALES PARA LO QUE SOMOS COMO NACIÓN Y SON FUNDAMENTALES PARA NUESTRA RECUPERACIÓN ECONÓMICA” Rep. Ritchie Torres celebrates on Twitter the Biden Administration’s executive actions on immigration.
I’M LEARNING THAT I AM NOT LIGHTING THAT STRIKES ONCE. I AM THE HURRICANE THAT COMES EVERY SINGLE YEAR, AND YOU CAN EXPECT TO SEE ME AGAIN SOON
COMMUNITY IS HERE FOR YOU. YOU ARE SAFE WITH ME, AND WITH ALL OF US. YOU ARE LOVED! “LA COMUNIDAD ESTÁ AQUÍ PARA TI. ESTÁS A SALVO CONMIGO, Y CON TODOS NOSOTROS. SE TE QUIERE!” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez expresses support for trauma survivors after sharing her own experience through Instagram Live.
IMMIGRATION DETENTION IS A FORM OF FAMILY SEPARATION “LA DETENCIÓN DE INMIGRANTES ES UNA FORMA DE SEPARACIÓN FAMILIAR”
Erika Andiola, RAICES’s Chief of Advocacy reacts on Twitter to the debate around immigration reform.
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“ESTOY APRENDIENDO QUE NO SOY EL RAYO QUE GOLPEA UNA VEZ. SOY EL HURACÁN QUE LLEGA CADA AÑO, Y PUEDES ESPERAR VERME DE NUEVO PRONTO”
National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman, tells former First Lady, Michelle Obama, about her realization of being a Black artist, in a TIME magazine interview.
THIS DIFFERENCE IN PERCEPTION, THIS BLINDNESS TO THE INNOCENCE OF A BLACK CHILD, IS NOT JUST UNFEELING. IT IS ROOTED IN DEHUMANIZATION “ESTA DIFERENCIA DE PERCEPCIÓN, ESTA CEGUERA ANTE LA INOCENCIA DE UN NIÑO NEGRO, NO ES SÓLO INSENSIBLE. TIENE SUS RAÍCES EN LA DESHUMANIZACIÓN” Rebecca Epstein, executive director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown Law, and Toella Pliakas, a senior at Georgetown University, wrote in an Op-Ed for the Washington Post, reacting to the Rochester police officers’ handle of a Black girl’s emotional crisis. FEBRUARY 10 - 17, 2021
