02/23/2021
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"transformative change doesn't happen because it starts in the halls of Congress. It happens because of movement work"
"No taxation without representation was one of the rallying cries of the American Revolution, and the full phrase was 'taxation without representation is tyranny.'"
"Yet, that they are deprived of having their elected officials vote in Congress, one of the most fundamental principles underlining our Constitution."
"I feel in many ways all the residents of the Washington D.C. area--in the District of Columbia are being denied access to that representation."