Ayanna Pressley actually said...

"How are we sending these children into their future? How are we sending them? And another question: Would you allow this for your own child?"

"We have to work with them. We are not isolated."

"Violence begets violence and trauma begets trauma, and so many families and communities like my own are passing along, unfortunately, the legacy of intergenerational trauma."

"It is so important--I am sorry you have to weaponize your pain in order for this survivor tribe to be seen and to be heard but it is so critical that this work be survivor led."