Stacey Yvonne Abrams' success as a politician, attorney, activist, and author results from her tremendous effort and drive to succeed.
The date of birth of Stacey Abrams is December 9, 1973, while the place of her birth is Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Stacey Abrams uses her skills with words to influence her supporters and is incredibly committed to the course she pursues.
Stacey Abrams was the Democrat candidate for governor of Georgia in 2018 and the country's inaugural female candidate for a major political party. Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate who defeated her in the election, was victorious. Still, she declined to accept defeat, claiming that Kemp had suppressed the vote as Georgia's secretary of state.
Stacey Abrams Quotes On Dreaming High
Abrams knew what it meant to have a goal and to do everything in one's power to achieve it. Here are some motivational words on it.
"Not everyone’s ambitions will be world domination or Carnegie Hall, but we should be driven beyond what we know and feel safe doing."
"We must use words to uplift and include. We can use our words to fight back against oppression and hate. But we must also channel our words into action."
"Because I learned long ago that winning doesn’t always mean you get the prize. Sometimes you get progress, and that counts."
"Like most who are underestimated, I have learned to over-perform and find soft but key ways to take credit. Because ultimately, leadership and power require the confidence to effectively wield both."
"Good leaders are always at the ready, but not always at the front."
"Financial independence gives us the power to decide our futures and liberate our conception of what’s possible."
"Clean energy jobs can exist across the state and create micro-economies to support struggling communities."
"I finished my higher education deeply in debt and with seven years of bad credit in my future."
"Our ability to participate in government, to elect our leaders, and to improve our lives is contingent upon our ability to access the ballot. We know in our heart of hearts that voting is a sacred right, the fount from which all other rights flow."
"We are strongest when we see the most vulnerable in our society, bear witness to their struggles, and then work to create systems to make it better."
"Progress is possible, but it is fragile, and across our country, the battles for our most basic civil rights rage on."
"The most significant successes come from letting your light shine, embracing failure, and getting good at being wrong."
"Invention, discovery, and empires are built of chances taken with high degrees of failure."
"We all set our sights on jobs we want, titles we covet. But, like dating the wrong person, we have to learn to understand what is truly for us and be willing to break up to find the real thing."
"When we show up, act boldly, and practice the best ways to be wrong, we fail forward. No matter where we end up, we’ve grown from where we began."
"When you’re focused on your enemy, then you are ignoring your allies."
"When people doubt your right to be somewhere, the responsibility falls on you to prove over and over again that you deserve to be there."
"Our priorities should ideally engage heart and head."
"Never tell yourself no. Let someone else do it."
"At its most complex, ambition should be an animation of the soul. Not simply a job, but a disquiet that requires you to take action."
"I like solving problems that seem intractable. That’s how I thrive."
Stacey Abrams Quotes On Politics
Abrams has been a political figure for many years and has earned a good reputation for doing what is right. Here are some of her views on politics.
"Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our state."
"Conversion is hard. Conversion is miraculous. We have entire religions built around the idea of conversion. Politics is not a religion. Politics is about persuasion."
"Local governments can use advanced energy to retrain workers and create local jobs, and the positive economic impacts can remain local."
"The marginalized did not create identity politics, their identities have been forced on them by dominant groups, and politics is the most effective method of revolt."
"Names matter; labels matter. We should always pursue the highest title available and fight for the labels that reflect our clout."
"One of the traditional rites of passage for political candidates is the revelation of financial status—a catechism—like the recital of money, mistakes made, and debts owed."
"I revered the civil rights movement and appreciated the laws that granted us the right to ride buses, to sit at lunch counters, to cast ballots. But the slowness of real change fueled the riots' intensity, from coast to coast. Decades later, inequality still ravaged poor and black communities."
"Identity politics forces those who ask for our support to do their jobs."
"Running in a primary to be the vice president is very different than someone who has been selected by the party to be the nominee asking you to serve as a partner. I am open to all options."
"Citizens tried to exercise their constitutional rights and were still denied the ability to elect their leaders. Under the watch of the now-former secretary of state, democracy failed Georgia."
"I got into my first fight, Democrat versus Republican, in second grade. I won."
"To make a good decision, you actually need to think about it, the contours and the consequences."
"From the beginning of this catastrophe, Governor Kemp has demonstrated that Governor Kemp has absolutely no competency in this process."
"Our obligation, in Georgia and across the nation, is to seize the high road by changing how we campaign and to whom."
"The right to be seen. The right to be heard. The right to direct the course of history are markers of power."
"Where I think historians can help preserve and actually restore democracy is to remind us of how we got it."
"The best allies own their privilege not as a badge of honor but as a reminder to be constantly listening and learning to become better at offering support to others."
"The United States must no longer be a patchwork of good, bad, and worst states for voters. A degradation of democracy based on state lines and zip codes."
"The notion of identity politics has been peddled for the last ten years, and it’s been used as a dog whistle to say that we shouldn’t pay too much attention to the new voices coming into progress."
(Stacey Abrams has bought on focus the youth poverty rate and helped to fight for their rights.)
Stacey Abrams Quotes On Leadership
Stacey Abrams is aware that assembling large groups or simply motivating people does not make a good leader, but proving they are worthy with their actions does.
"Effective leaders must be truth seekers, and that requires a willingness to understand truths other than our own."
"I think you don’t run for second place."
"I believe we need leaders who actually want to lead everyone."
"I believe so, for me, the conversation that led to me writing ‘Lead from the Outside’ is that we have to start evolving what the face of leadership looks like."
"Not only must we stop telling ourselves no, we have to internalize our right to make mistakes and to use each error as an entry point to more knowledge."
"There are racial and gender implications to how we think about what leadership looks like in the country."
"Admitting mistakes is a fundamental skill too few of us learn. In part, this is because we’ve been taught it’s wrong to be wrong."
"I’m a good leader. I’m a good executive. I’ve been outside the U.S. a few times, and I’ve done a little bit of foreign policy. But most importantly, I’m smart enough to be in charge of this country."
"Regardless of their parent’s income or zip code, every child in Georgia deserves access to a high-quality, affordable education."
"Defeating fear of otherness means knowing who you are and what you’re trying to accomplish and leveraging that otherness to our benefit."
"What’s not right is giving credence to bad actions and thereby becoming complicit."
"I’m very aware that as an African-American woman, I will be doing something no one else has done."
"Effective leaders are able to say to the person they want to impress most: ‘I don’t know."
"I will stand up on issues as they arise, making sure that the voices of Georgians are always being heard."
"Leadership requires the ability to engage and to create empathy for communities with disparate needs and ideas. Telling an effective story—especially in romantic suspense—demands a similar skill set."
"I have a fairly hefty resume because I’m pretty aggressive about doing things that I think I need to do."
"We’re too often told that our mistakes are ours alone, but victory is a shared benefit."
"I am driven by a desire to see poverty end and economic security be a guaranteed capacity for every person. Most of the impediments or solutions are state-driven, not federally driven."
"To achieve our goals of educating bold and ambitious children, we must invest in enriching, quality early child care and learning."
"I do not believe in taking jobs just because the job is available. You have to want to do that job, and you should plan to be there for a while."
Stacey Abrams Quotes On Voting
Voting is integral in choosing the best-suited candidate to serve their country or state. Abrams has constantly advocated for fair voting and has brought attention to areas where injustice prevails.
"Yet, from limiting original voting rights to white men, to the elitist and racist origins of the Electoral College, American democracy has always left people out of participation, by design."
"We are strongest when we see the most vulnerable in our society, bear witness to their struggles, and then work to create systems to make it better."
"Voting is a constitutional right in the United States, a right that has been reiterated three separate times via constitutional amendment."
"Let's be clear: Voter suppression is real."
"First things first' might be a cliche, but it's a useful one that means prioritizing what matters most to you and believing there is no wrong answer."
"It’s frustrating to realize we’re taught to be humble in a way that men are not."
"Full citizenship rights are the bare minimum one should expect from the government."
"Yet, for two-thirds of our history, full citizenship was denied to those who built this country from theory to life. African slaves and Chinese workers and Native American environmentalists and Latino gauchos and Irish farmers—and half the population: women."
"Voting rights are the most basic tenet of our democracy, and the bare minimum one should expect from the government."
"Voters will never agree with everything you say, but they get excited to know that a politician is willing to tell them the truth. They want to trust that a candidate won’t suppress their values to try to appeal to a specific group."
"Economic inequality is systemic, and one of the most effective barriers is ignorance about how money works beyond the basics."
"Worse, because the rules differ from state to state, and the implementation changes from county to county, access to democracy becomes a lottery of location."
"A voter wants to know that the one in whom they invest their time and trust is an authentic candidate who stands on the values that they hold."
"To achieve our goals of educating bold and ambitious children, we must invest in enriching, quality early child care and learning."
"Saving democracy is not an overblown call to action — we are in trouble."
"Worse, because the rules differ from state to state, and the implementation changes from county to county, access to democracy becomes a lottery of location."
"Voter suppression works its might by first tripping and causing to stumble the unwanted voter, then by convincing those who see the obstacle course to forfeit the race without even starting to run."
"The voting system is not just political; it is economic, social, and educational. It is omnipresent and omniscient, and it is fallible."
"Yet, when a structure is broken, we are fools if we simply ignore the defect in favor of pretending that our democracy isn't cracking at the seams."
"Because I suddenly saw opportunity where I had never been brave enough to look before, and I found that failure wasn’t fatal, that otherness held an extraordinary power for clarity and invention."
"I confronted the expected stereotypes by knowing what they were and building an alternate narrative about myself."
