Anna’s Reviews > Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America > Status Update

YelloPain YouTube video

“When winning is all that matters, how you win has less and less relevance. My mission is to remind us that it is not about getting a job. It is about helping the voices of our people be heard. And that’s what democracy is.”

Authoritarian populism

“... any leadership in America must understand the international approach to global questions as well as the intersectionality of our policies. Plainly said, we have to understand the effect we are having on the world, and vice versa.”

National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

Class Warfare & Identity

“Then, as now, identity matters. I embrace identity politics because for the marginalized, the disadvantaged, and the minority groups still grappling for purchase in our politics, identity is the strongest defense against invisibility”

Civil rights leader, Hosea L. Williams, “once told a group of activists to think about a washing machine. What cleans the clothes is not the water or the soap, it’s the mechanism that shakes the clothes and forces the water and soap to do their jobs: the agitator”.

“...citizenship requires constant action, which includes voting, protesting, and participating; and without the combination, we are all in jeopardy .... no true success would be viable and sustainable without harnessing every aspect of the process”