Zohran Mamdani said "If you and I were to introduce the idea of a building that lends out books for free, we would be slandered in the same way that so many new ideas are slandered today, and yet that's the library. The same thing with the fire department, the same thing with public schools."" @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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If you and I were to introduce the idea of a building that lends out books for free, we would be slandered in the same way that so many new ideas are slandered today, and yet that's the library. The same thing with the fire department, the same thing with public schools."

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Zohran Mamdani

Democratic · New York

Source

reason.com

Editor's note · Context

Discussing socialism in a podcast interview.

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