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Ilhan Omar
Born
in Mogadishu, Somalia
October 04, 1982
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“I have no religious expectation of her or of anybody else for that matter. I’m a Muslim and live as such, but I’m also a humanist. Just as I believe in God, so also do I believe that we are all connected no matter our faith, belief in science, race, or country of origin. We all have an ability to enrich one another not in spite of our differences but because of them.”
― This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
― This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
“You can’t take away the past; you can only add to the narrative. There is a narrative about Muslims that already exists. I’m not here to undo or rewrite history. That is propaganda or an impossibility. What I, and others, can do is expand on the notion of what it means to be Muslim, continue the story line that survives alongside us.”
― This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
― This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
“Although we witnessed the worst of human nature in Utange, we also witnessed the best of it. The greatest lesson I came away with from my time in the refugee camp is that your today doesn’t get to determine your tomorrow. Everything in life is fluid. Pride, strength, and responsibility—all of those notions are the domain of people in comfort and safety. When you’re facing death, you’re not guided by your importance or your past, and you certainly don’t worry about whether your pride is intact. Again and again, I witnessed that if you can push through whatever is happening today, tomorrow might be worse, but it could also be better. The only option for the human spirit is to keep going.”
― This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
― This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
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