I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.
At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.
I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.
I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
I grew up in a very liberal place.
Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.
I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.
Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.
My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.
I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.