Sandra E. Peterson Quotes

In every school, community center, city hall, and state capitol, there are women who are making their voices heard and standing up for the people they serve - women who aren't just demanding change but finding ways to create it. They are making an impact, and along the way, they're inspiring others to do the same.

I am not running for mayor yet. But if it comes to be true that people cannot voice an opinion unless they have been elected, then we are no longer in a democracy.

It's important for Oklahoma to have people in a position to make a difference. The only way we can do that is to have people in key places.

I'm very confident in the voice and the power of the American people.

My responsibility will be to unite all the women and men ready to take on the tremendous challenges which are waiting for us, and to act.

Black politics is redemption and transformation. It's not always pretty, but it's not always ugly either. I'll put India.Arie up against Donald Trump any day and let the people choose.

If people were silent, nothing would change.

Listen, here's reality. It is completely unfair and absolutely necessary that people who have been oppressed and marginalized have to lead everybody. That is MLK, that is Dolores Huerta, that is Fannie Lou Hamer, that is Ella Jo Baker, that is Nelson Mandela. You walk down the line.

I don't think of myself as a powerful person. But I do use the platforms I have to make a difference in the world. Anyone who has a position where they can make a difference should use it.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.

People have a huge desire to be listened to, for politicians to take the time to understand their problems.

If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.

I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'

Just like you can't cure a patient without listening to what he's feeling, you can't cure a nation without hearing what the people are really asking for.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

We lack role models who can inspire our young people to make change.

Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.

I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.

I've not given the poor people of Bihar heaven, but I have given them a voice.

Democracy Is What You Make It!

I am the voice of my people.