Jamaal Bowman

Once an educator, always an educator!

— Jamaal Bowman

Our democracy is falling apart - we can't just let that happen.

— Jamaal Bowman

Our strength as a democracy relies on voter confidence.

— Jamaal Bowman

I'm a sponge, man. I'm a learner.

— Jamaal Bowman

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

— Jamaal Bowman

All my kids do is make fun of me.

— Jamaal Bowman

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

— Jamaal Bowman

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

— Jamaal Bowman

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

— Jamaal Bowman

Our response to crises cannot be adding more and more police funding.

— Jamaal Bowman

We must empower educators to provide the best learning environment possible for students.

— Jamaal Bowman

We can heal our planet, use cleaner and more efficient sources of energy while creating green jobs.

— Jamaal Bowman

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

— Jamaal Bowman

We need a federal jobs guarantee that puts everyone to work toward a green, clean renewable energy economy.

— Jamaal Bowman

I've been arrested for 'stealing' my own car, only to be released.

— 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

When I look at American history, I see how it has been driven by resistance and protest against a system that has…

— 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

If you care about social and racial justice, innovation, and humanity, become a teacher. There are amazing kids who have unlimited potential…

— Jamaal Bowman

Our crumbling infrastructure disproportionately harms Black, brown, Indigenous, and low-income communities. The negative health impacts arising from fossil fuel use, industrial pollution,…

— Jamaal Bowman

We need to end qualified immunity at the federal level, where police can violate a person's civil rights with impunity, which we've…

— Jamaal Bowman

A true infrastructure investment must include transforming our economy to handle the climate crisis, supporting care workers, reforming SSI, making child care…

— Jamaal Bowman

I deeply love the students that I serve. I tried to do anything in my power to give them additional resources and…

— Jamaal Bowman

The College Athlete Right to Organize Act is the first step in bringing college sports into the 21st century by ensuring college…

— 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

Hip Hop is the rebirth of civilization. For people who were disconnected from their continent, from their language, from their culture, and…

— Jamaal Bowman

Yes, we need a substantial investment in our hard infrastructure like roads and bridges. But roads and bridges can't serve people if…

— Jamaal Bowman

I talk about the politics of love over the politics of fear... Fear is rooted in institutional racism. It's this fear of…

— Jamaal Bowman

College athletes are workers, period. They are skilled and disciplined young people who deserve so much more than to be treated, in…

— 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

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

— Jamaal Bowman

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

— Jamaal Bowman

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

— Jamaal Bowman

I'm trying my best not to raise my children with fear of the police.

— Jamaal Bowman

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

— Jamaal Bowman

Teachers are the lifeblood of our communities and the ones who nurture the future of our world.

— Jamaal Bowman

We have to break the cycle of structural racism, and build a truly just society for all of us.

— Jamaal Bowman

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

— Jamaal Bowman

I'm a Black man who was raised by a single mother in a housing project. That story doesn't usually end in Congress.

— Jamaal Bowman

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

— Jamaal Bowman