Kshama Sawant, " Kshama Sawant's Speech at $15 Minimum Wage Vote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02PU5KoNhyc," YouTube video, 5:28, posted by "Calvin Priest," June 3, 2014. <br class="br">Context: We did this. Workers did this. Today's first major victory for 15 will inspire people all over the nation. We need to recognize what happened here in Seattle that led us to this point. 15 was not won at the bargaining table as the so-called "sensible compromise" between workers and business. It was not the result of the generosity of corporations or their Democratic Party representatives in government.
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Quoted in Kevin Roose, " Meet the Seattle Socialist Leading the Fight for a $15 Minimum Wage http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/05/kshama-sawant-seattle-socialist.html", New York magazine (May 26, 2014).
“When things are exquisitely beautiful and rare, they shouldn't be privately owned.”
Quoted in Sarah Stuteville, " You might be a socialist if… An interview with Kshama Sawant http://www.seattleglobalist.com/2012/10/30/you-might-be-a-socialist-if-an-interview-with-kshama-sawant", The Seattle Globalist (October 30, 2012).
