Jamaal Bowman

Our schools, like so many parts of our infrastructure, are crumbling across the country. Healing our schools can and should be central…

— Jamaal Bowman

No Republican vote in favor of an infrastructure package should supersede our mission: to build an America that works for the people,…

— Jamaal Bowman

As chair of the Energy Subcommittee, I look forward to passing visionary policy that seeks to infuse climate justice with economic and…

— Jamaal Bowman

We need to make power a public utility to end man-made energy disasters and ensure that no family ever has to choose…

— Jamaal Bowman

The very name Jerusalem means City of Peace. Violently evicting families from their homes in which generations have lived is not an…

— Jamaal Bowman

As we deal with a devastating climate crisis caused by decades of unchecked corporate greed, we need to center our children and…

— Jamaal Bowman

I believe our current system of capitalism is slavery by another name.

— Jamaal Bowman

Climate change is ravaging our cities - we can't just let that happen.

— Jamaal Bowman

Once an educator, always an educator!

— Jamaal Bowman

Our foreign aid to other nations should never be used to harm.

— Jamaal Bowman

So, I started teaching in 1999 in the South Bronx.

— Jamaal Bowman

Racist infrastructure has damaged districts like mine for generations.

— Jamaal Bowman

We did not go to Congress just to talk the talk - we are here to walk the walk.

— Jamaal Bowman

Being a candidate who doesn't take corporate PAC money forced me to be accountable to the people I serve and to meet…

— Jamaal Bowman

Without a holistic care infrastructure to support us, our economy and society simply cannot thrive.

— Jamaal Bowman

My problem is white comfort with Black death. I am personally tired of white comfort with black death.

— Jamaal Bowman

I would never try to fill John Lewis's shoes. I can only be myself - my authentic self.

— Jamaal Bowman

We need to stop sending federal military equipment to local police departments.

— Jamaal Bowman

You know what Donald Trump is more afraid of than anything else? A Black man with power.

— Jamaal Bowman

In the 21st century, we must rethink broadband as a basic utility alongside gas, electric, and water.

— Jamaal Bowman

It's important for Muslims and non-Muslims to stand together against hate in all of its forms, particularly against Islamophobia because quite often…

— Jamaal Bowman

The story of the American Jewish community is one of resilience and transformation. While often facing antisemitism and discrimination, the Jewish community…

— Jamaal Bowman

I've been locked up for not having insurance, only to be released. I mean, this sort of thing is just par for…

— Jamaal Bowman

We will continue our work to uphold the values within our families, communities, and institutions that our service members have fought to…

— Jamaal Bowman

The Green New Deal for Public Schools represents the level of school infrastructure investment that is urgent and necessary to heal the…

— Jamaal Bowman

I'm going to be the kind of congressperson where I'm going to be at rallies with the people, fighting for justice and…

— Jamaal Bowman

I was suspended and discarded. I was told to go to hell by administrators. I was placed in classes far beneath my…

— Jamaal Bowman

Many elected Republicans know that ensuring that people of color can vote freely would spell bad news for them and their agenda,…

— Jamaal Bowman

I support defunding the police - particularly the militarization of our police force and reallocating those resources toward public health. And not…

— Jamaal Bowman

We have all ethnicities, religions, economic statuses, orientations, genders, so much diversity. We need to make sure that that diversity is seen,…

— Jamaal Bowman

My second year of teaching I was chosen to be a crisis intervention teacher. Our school was a kindergarten through fourth grade…

— Jamaal Bowman

Alex, AOC, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, she was a mentor from afar, even before I got to Congress.

— Jamaal Bowman

My background is: I'm a Black man in America, victim of police brutality, victim of institutional racism, working-class from working-class roots.

— Jamaal Bowman

To reimagine our country, we must first rebuild our infrastructure with community priorities at the center.

— Jamaal Bowman

Roads and bridges can't serve us if they're continually eroded by a worsening climate crisis.

— Jamaal Bowman

As long as energy is treated as a commodity, not a right, poor people, workers, and communities of color will suffer.

— Jamaal Bowman

Ending the school-to-prison pipeline is not a small task and requires detangling the myth of white superiority from our entire education system.

— Jamaal Bowman

The barriers to careers in STEM that people of color and traditionally underrepresented groups face need to be broken down.

— Jamaal Bowman

Whoever becomes Education Secretary has to have a love and passion for public schools. Not charter schools, not vouchers, but public schools.

— Jamaal Bowman

The care economy impacts all of us: our children, elderly loved ones, family members with disabilities, child care workers, home health aides,…

— Jamaal Bowman