- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
- Party
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was nominated at first by a group called Justice Democrats. They were trying to essentially field non-corporate candidates in the 2018 midterm election. They were looking for people with a history of community service, and my name had come across their desk, and they called.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're differently-abled, if you're a person of color, if you express your identity in a way that's different from the norm, for whatever reason, there's an implicit bias where people, frankly, sometimes take you less seriously.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody ever wins the first time they run for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win their first bid for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win without taking lobbyists' money. No one's ever supposed to defeat an incumbent. No one's ever supposed to run a grassroots campaign without running any ads on television. We did all of those things.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn't do anything,' because, frankly, it's said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of closing Rikers, we have to close Rikers, but we have to ensure that we're not just taking - that we're not continuing to incarcerate the same level of people. It doesn't do us much good if we close Rikers and then take that same amount of people and just distribute them to be incarcerated elsewhere.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think that sometimes, especially coming into this going straight from activism to being a candidate or to being a person who potentially, you know, looks like will be holding political office soon, I think we expect our politicians to be perfect and fully formed and on point on every single issue.
- Continue
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States.
- Criminalize
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before ICE, we had Immigration and Naturalization Services, but it wasn't until about 1999 that we chose to criminalize immigration at all. And then, once ICE was established, we really kind of militarized that enforcement to a degree that was previously unseen in the United States.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think - I do think that we have to have a secure border. We need to make sure that people are, in fact, documented. But that doesn't mean that we threaten people's lives.
- Committing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we talk about the word 'socialism,' I think what it really means is just democratic participation in our economic dignity and our economic, social, and racial dignity. It is about direct representation and people actually having power and stake over their economic and social wellness, at the end of the day.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It's asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It's one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020