Rep. Sarah McBride
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 23 Mar
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When I was growing up, the idea that I could live openly and do work that I love, find love, live in a community I love, it seemed so impossible that it was almost incomprehensible.
And yes, we are in a moment where we are moving backwards.
But...
I have had over the privilege of my lifetime, and I recognize how lucky I am, but I have had the privilege of bearing witness to change that once seemed so impossible to me that it was almost incomprehensible, not only become possible, but become a reality.
And I now get to walk onto the floor of the United States House of Representatives as my authentic self.
something that I never, ever could have imagined.
The words themselves that I just said would not have made sense to me when I was a kid.
And now I get to walk on the floor as the representative of more than a million people and cast my vote in the place where slavery was abolished, where women got the right to vote, where the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution was ratified.
That change...
seemed impossible to me as a kid, and today it is a reality.
And that is because people persevered.
They maintained hope in the face of that impossibility.
Not just people like me over the last 30 years, but every single previous generation.
You cannot tell me that the reasons for hopelessness now are greater than the reasons for hopelessness for an enslaved person in the 1850s who had no reason to believe that an Emancipation Proclamation was on the horizon.
You cannot tell me that the reasons for hopelessness today are greater than the reasons for hopelessness for an unemployed worker in the early days of the Great Depression who had never heard of a New Deal.
You cannot tell me that the reasons for hopelessness now are greater than the reasons for hopelessness for a closeted LGBTQ person in the 1950s who never knew of a country where they could live openly and authentically as themselves without violating the law.
They had every reason to give up, but they didn't.
They persevered.
They summoned their hope.
They found the light and they changed the world.
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