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Kshama Sawant
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“When things are exquisitely beautiful and rare, they shouldn't be privately owned.”
Kshama Sawant (born 1973) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Sarah Stuteville, "You might be a socialist if… An interview with Kshama Sawant", The Seattle Globalist (October 30, 2012).
“If making sure that workers get out of poverty would severely impact the economy, then maybe we don't need this economy.”
Kshama Sawant (born 1973) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Kevin Roose, "Meet the Seattle Socialist Leading the Fight for a $15 Minimum Wage", New York magazine (May 26, 2014).
“We did this. Workers did this. Today's first major victory for 15 will inspire people all over the nation. We need to recognize what happened here in Seattle that led us to this point. 15 was not won at the bargaining table as the so-called "sensible compromise" between workers and business. It was not the result of the generosity of corporations or their Democratic Party representatives in government.”
Kshama Sawant (born 1973) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kshama Sawant, "Kshama Sawant's Speech at $15 Minimum Wage Vote," YouTube video, 5:28, posted by "Calvin Priest," June 3, 2014.
“As Marxists, we use the capitalist electoral system to win concrete victories for the working class, popularize and build the socialist movement, and expose in real time the limits of the fundamentally undemocratic electoral system we are using. Ultimately, we know we can’t win a socialist transformation of society through the capitalist electoral system because it’s not our system; in fact, it’s designed specifically to prevent systemic change.”
Kshama Sawant (born 1973) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kshama Sawant: Why I Signed the Petition for My Own Recall." Jacobin, August 4, 2021