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“New Yorkers would be shocked to learn of the conditions some construction workers in our city toil under.”
“The vast majority of our men and women in uniform are doing the right thing.”
“During my campaign for Public Advocate, and Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign for mayor, we committed to making Eid school holidays a reality.”
“I've been independent all of my life.”
“Walmart markets its gun department as 'sports and outdoors,' but let us get one thing straight: They are not just selling hunting rifles.”
“New York is celebrated as a leader in our nation's quest for progress because ours is a city built by the labor of a thousand different shades and accents.”
“Establishing the two Eids as official holidays will carry important practical and symbolic significance.”
“Before any family is placed in any type of shelter, there must be a thorough, top-to-bottom, building-wide inspection. These inspections must be ongoing and publicly accessible. There is no excuse for any person to be blindly put into an apartment without a guarantee that the space is safe.”
“I come from humble beginnings myself.”
“It is imperative that we set the national example and make it clear that companies seeking to do business in New York City cannot be allowed to treat their workers like second-class citizens.”
“New York City must divest the hundreds of millions of dollars we have invested in Walmart for far too long, dollars that are only fueling violence and undermining the greater public interest. Once our nation's largest city does so, I know other states and municipalities will follow suit.”
“Some contractors force workers to provide paybacks to keep their jobs. Others intentionally misclassify workers in order to underpay them - by, for example, paying a skilled construction worker as a general laborer.”
“Dysfunction in Washington has stalled any meaningful federal action on gun control. So it's increasingly up to big cities like New York to take bold steps to get weapons off our streets and change the national discourse.”
“The vast majority of our teachers, our principals and our PTAs are well informed and well meaning, but even those with the best intentions can benefit from cultural competency training.”
“In reality, handing over public space to private developers does not guarantee that new library spaces will be comparable in size or otherwise remain fully-functional.”
“Going forward, I am focused on rooting out discrimination against those living with HIV/AIDS.”
“To my dismay, inadequate signage, non-ADA compliant ramps, narrow doorways, and poorly-placed voting machines are preventing hundreds of thousands of people from exercising one of our most basic rights as Americans.”
“Around the nation, lawmakers have drawn up their districts with such perverse precision and aversion to competition, that legislators rarely face competitive challenges.”
“The scales of justice often, in my head, are unbalanced. And so my job is to try to balance out those scales.”
“The Internet serves as a channel of endless information through which individuals now access the news, employment opportunities, education, entertainment, etc.”