Zohran Mamdani: “The freedoms we enjoy were not handed down; they were won.”

While we cannot feel the silence they left behind, we will refuse to let their memory fade.

I think that we have a civic responsibility to ensure that we are not leaving anybody out to dry.

Our neighbors should not live in fear that the parking lot down the block could become a staging ground for an operation that puts their communities at risk.

They also tell every immigrant New Yorker that they are treasured members of this community, [that] our City welcomes them with open arms.