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"I grew up in a house where there were so many pictures of John F. Kennedy that I thought he was a relative."

"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 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."

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

"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."

"At this particular point, I'm very positive; I'm not very scared of anything."

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