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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Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I’m not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.
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We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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 know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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