Mamdani: The Working People of New York Have Always Been Told, that ‘Power Doesn’t Belong in Their Hands’

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MAMDANI: "Thank you, my friends.
(Cheering and Applause)
The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said, 'I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.'
(Cheering and Applause)
For as long as we can remember, the working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands. Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns. These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power. And yet over the last 12 months, you have dared to reach for something greater."