My number one priority is the safety of our communities, and particularly the safety of our children. — Jamaal Bowman Children Copy Share Image
Without a holistic care infrastructure to support us, our economy and society simply cannot thrive. — Jamaal Bowman Health Copy Share Image
We can have a political system that works for the people and allows for the economy to thrive. It doesn't have to… — Jamaal Bowman Economics Copy Share Image
The barriers to careers in STEM that people of color and traditionally underrepresented groups face need to be broken down. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
Racist infrastructure has damaged districts like mine for generations. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
Roads and bridges can't serve us if they're continually eroded by a worsening climate crisis. — Jamaal Bowman Bridges Copy Share Image
As long as energy is treated as a commodity, not a right, poor people, workers, and communities of color will suffer. — Jamaal Bowman Climate Copy Share Image
We must hire more social workers and counselors in our schools than police officers. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has endorsed and enabled a doctrine of obstructionism that's prevented Americans from seeing the help and progress… — Jamaal Bowman Help Copy Share Image
Defund the police does not mean abolish the police. It means a dramatic reduction in the number of police in our poor… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
What we badly need in this country is a National Truth and Reconciliation Commission, like what we've seen in other nations that… — Jamaal Bowman Country Copy Share Image
Violence begets violence, and hate begets hate. Both hate and violence beget a society that harms, and makes impossible the healing necessary… — Jamaal Bowman Full potential Copy Share Image
I was suspended and discarded. I was told to go to hell by administrators. I was placed in classes far beneath my… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
The story of the American Jewish community is one of resilience and transformation. While often facing antisemitism and discrimination, the Jewish community… — Jamaal Bowman Better place Copy Share Image
We need a Green New Deal for Public Housing, as my colleague and friend Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez has proposed. We need a Green… — Jamaal Bowman Climate Copy Share Image
The impact of poverty on our kids and their learning. That's something I've understood pretty intimately throughout my career as an educator. — Jamaal Bowman Education Copy Share Image
As legislators, it's our job to create accessible voting systems that inspire confidence in the accuracy of tabulation and verifiability of results.… — Jamaal Bowman Confidence Copy Share Image
Congress has the authority to authorize spending and investment to historically neglected and marginalized communities. — Jamaal Bowman Authority Copy Share Image
To reimagine our country, we must first rebuild our infrastructure with community priorities at the center. — Jamaal Bowman Community Copy Share Image
Losing your home is one of the most destabilizing, inhumane things a person can experience. — Jamaal Bowman Experience Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever bring back George Floyd, or any of the thousands of others we have lost to racist police violence. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
Alex, AOC, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez, she was a mentor from afar, even before I got to Congress. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
We need to invest in our people and a livable planet if we want to build an economy that works for everyone. — Jamaal Bowman Economics Copy Share Image
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 Champion Copy Share Image
The Green New Deal for Public Schools represents the level of school infrastructure investment that is urgent and necessary to heal the… — Jamaal Bowman Children Copy Share Image
We will continue our work to uphold the values within our families, communities, and institutions that our service members have fought to… — Jamaal Bowman Equality Copy Share Image
In using the English language to create an entirely new art form, the pioneers of Hip Hop created a vessel that grew… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
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 America Copy Share Image
I am endorsing Joe Biden. He has to be our president. Donald Trump is a racist and a fascist, and we have… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We need to ask ourselves what kind of systems and structures we want in place - not only for people to survive,… — Jamaal Bowman Architecture Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Congressman Engel had a reputation quite frankly for being absent from the community, being disengaged and not being a leader or fighter… — Jamaal Bowman Community Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We need a real, honest, and national conversation about racism in America, because the status quo is a crisis for too many… — Jamaal Bowman America Copy Share Image
As chair of the Energy Subcommittee, I look forward to passing visionary policy that seeks to infuse climate justice with economic and… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
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 Education Copy Share Image
As we deal with a devastating climate crisis caused by decades of unchecked corporate greed, we need to center our children and… — Jamaal Bowman Children Copy Share Image
The very name Jerusalem means City of Peace. Violently evicting families from their homes in which generations have lived is not an… — Jamaal Bowman City Copy Share Image
Whoever becomes Education Secretary has to have a love and passion for public schools. Not charter schools, not vouchers, but public schools. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
