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"An experience that shaped my politics would be growing up in Britain with parents with socialist ideas."

"What shaped my politics was the Black Panther Trial that went on here in New Haven in 1969,"

"I think that it was my neighborhood that helped me shape my politics,"

"Political willpower sometimes isn't enough to trump some of those more urgent moments of inequality."

"I did not care in anyway about politics before I started thinking about where the world is headed and what it's gonna look like when my kids get older."

"I think, like, being around some racist people in college, and wanting to speak up about it kinda shaped my politics, and made me realize there's a lot to be done."

"Fragile. Life is fragile."

"Well, I had a really crappy childhood, so, I guess, taking my experiences from my childhood, I see the world differently."

"The bombing of Cambodia in 1969 shaped my politics."

"When I used to live in Virginia, there was a lot of homeless people where I used to live, so seeing that kinda shaped my politics."