Ayanna Pressley

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333 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard Jun 2025

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The Don Lemon Show · LEMON DROP | Rep. Ayanna Pressley on Fighting the Trump Agenda · 28 Jun 2025 podcast

But he fell in love with her because she was already an activist.

Dare I say she was already a progressive.

And one of the things she said is that freedom is never really won.

You earn it and win it in every generation.

And so some people can hear that and sort of feel defeatist about it.

But it's just a reminder to me of my responsibility in this moment and that the path to justice, Don, it's never been linear.

It's a disruptive algorithm and we're just in it.

So when we say that we've never seen this before,

It's not true.

We've been here before.

We just haven't seen it in our lifetime.

And it is frightening that people are working actively to roll back the hands of time, to roll back gains.

But what I've learned as an activist and a lawmaker

And what we've seen with the Supreme Court, look at this.

I mean, whether you're talking about the Dobbs decision and the striking down of Roe, whether you're talking about affirmative action and higher education or the Minority Business Development Agency decision, you know, any decision.

What that proves is that we do not have gains in perpetuity.

They do not exist in perpetuity.

Gains are not guaranteed.

And that's why once we have them, we have to fight like hell to keep them and to expand them.

Look at Roe.

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