I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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It’s not just that I’m a woman of color running for office. It’s the way that I ran. It’s the way that my identity formed my methods.
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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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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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I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn’t be in politics, now are saying, ‘Oh, wait, I don’t need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I’ll run, too.’
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It’s disingenuous to pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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I know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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