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I was very proud to be part of the Million Man March. I think it's one of the best things that I ever did.

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Keith Ellison
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 4
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U.S. Representative
Detroit
Michigan
Keith Maurice Ellison
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We've got to build a durable relationship of trust with voters around the things that they are most concerned about.
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One of the most important things we can do right now is empower ordinary working Americans who really do deserve a fair shot in this economy. But I'm not afraid to talk about any issue. But I do believe it is a distraction.
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Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.
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For activists who want to preserve constitutional democracy, who don't believe in hereditary aristocracy, who believe that teachers ought to be able to deduct the 250 bucks of school supplies that they bring - they might spend their own money for in a classroom, then you still have time to fight a horrible piece of legislation.
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I - to say the word scared, I don`t know if I`m scared because, I have faith that we will see this through. But I take Donald Trump seriously. He has literally millions of people who support him.
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I've been winning with 70 percent of the vote, and if you look at my district, you know it's a majority Christian district, and yet we've still been winning with high margins, so I don't feel like I've had any disadvantages for being a minority.
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I think that Paul Ryan could be a great leader for our country. But I think that he is in a moral choice moment, and so far, he`s choosing wrong Donald Trump.
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I'm particularly good at turnout. So in my district, I had the lowest voter turnout in 2006. And now I have the highest turnout in the state of Minnesota. And Minnesota is the highest turnout state in the country.
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Donald Trump is using an age-old trick of right wing populism, much like George Wallace, much like Joe McCarthy, Pitchfork Ben Tillman who in the 1880s and `90s was a rabid hateful racists who whipped up hate and hysteria for his own political benefit.
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Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.
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We want to be making clear that if [Donald Trump] tries to deliver on his word, that we will be there to say no.
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You have to talk about the issue of race, but I can talk to white constituents about racism, if I at least acknowledge that life is not a crystal stair for them either.
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We need to invest at the local party unit and focus our energy on turn out. That's how we come back, and we can come back.
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Over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot. And the main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.
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I think it's a good idea to be - to fairly identify where things could have gone better once you get the facts, once you get the data and once you're able to review.
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This is what people do in America. They get out. They demonstrate. They let their voices with heard.
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Hopefully folks will look at the good things that I've done over the years, you know, my 10 years in Congress, my 12 years in state legislature, my many years of community organizing for the environment, for police accountability, for criminal justice reform, economic empowerment, trying to fight for small-business people, all these things.
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We do know that [Hillary Clinton] was probably attacked and smeared as much as any candidate ever has been. We know that.
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I'm not here to cast aspersions on anyone. I'm trying to unify the party, not find fault.
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The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.
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