Zohran Mamdani: “Too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this…”

“As Thomas Paine once wrote, this new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty. Hither have they fled. And yet today, Too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted. but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum. As we mark 250 years, what do we see? We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions.” (08:55–09:01)

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