“At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another,” Mamdani said. “Time and again, including 250 years ago, those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress.”
He concluded his address with a pitch for the future.
“Those ideals upon which our nation was built, they are strong enough to endure any authoritarian regime, but only if we reach for them,” he said, moments before ending his address.
“Ours is a nation working each day towards the perfection in which it was conceived, a nation striving each day to better itself. Therein lies the work of America, the striving, the bettering, the reaching towards perfection,” he added.
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