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"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."
"Political willpower sometimes isn't enough to trump some of those more urgent moments of inequality."
"How do I encourage conversation across the divide, having been on both sides of it?"
"My parents were one Republican, one Democrat. They argued at the dinner table all the time."
"My mother refused to rent a house to a physics professor with a PhD from Trinity because he was black, so I became very Liberal."
"I'm open minded. My mother said 'Just love everything. Exprience everything. Be open minded.'"
"I came from an all white area, and going there [UMBC] just opened my mind to other diversity which I had never encountered, which was very challenging but also very enlightening."
"What shaped my politics was the Black Panther Trial that went on here in New Haven in 1969,"
"An experience that shaped my politics would be growing up in Britain with parents with socialist ideas."
"Basically, what I got out of that experience was that racial harmony is a really important thing that can affect anyone."
"I think actually being named Samuel Adams was probably an experience that shaped my politics,"
"I grew up in a house where there were so many pictures of John F. Kennedy that I thought he was a relative."
"Well, I had a really crappy childhood, so, I guess, taking my experiences from my childhood, I see the world differently."
"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."