Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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Public schools in the late ’80s and early ’90s were a total mess… we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.
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The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn’t be afraid to be bold.
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For me, democratic socialism is about – really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.
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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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It’s really scary or it’s easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don’t provide any substance to it.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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