We won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now it is something that we do. Standing before you, I think of the words of Jawal al-Neru.

A moment comes but rarely in history when we step out from the old to the new,

when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

Tonight we have stepped out from the old into the new.

So let us speak now with clarity and conviction that cannot be misunderstood about what this new age will deliver and for whom.

This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will

achieve rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt.

Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women

that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost

of groceries to go down or anyone else

with their back against the wall

your struggle is ours too

and we will build

a city hall

that stands steadfast

alongside Jewish New Yorkers

and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of

anti-Semitism, where the more than one million Muslims know that they belong.

Not just in the five boroughs of this city, but in the halls of power.

No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election.

He's saying the Democratic Party didn't deliver for working class people forever.

And this is not populace.

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