"So, Mr. Homan, in your expert view, can you instruct and advise me how to elevate Mariana's case and ensure that she gets the medical care she needs?"
"I don't want--I'm not talking about the past, I'm talking about the present, and we have an opportunity to save a life."
"You said there's been a lot of death. Let's stop the death."
"If you send equipment some place and more goods, and you send one toilet to serve 500 people, that is not sanitary."
"I just wanted to thank you for your commitment on the record to partner with me to do everything we can to save this Angolan detainee Mariana."
"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."
"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 critical that this work be survivor-led."
"We can't do them alone and so we have to be in partnership with those in our communities and it has to be community driven how these inequities play out."
"There is no hierarchy of hurt, and I appreciate you are pushing for us to address this in a comprehensive way."
"I have always taken issue with the term that children are resilient because I think it infers for people that they get over things."