QUOTES
"The future is in our hands."
TONE: Hopeful, Empowering
DICTION: Abstract
"We will fight for you, because we are you."
TONE: Unifying
DICTION: Colloquial
"Hope is alive."
TONE: Optimistic
DICTION: Abstract
"Your struggle is ours, too."
TONE: Compassionate
DICTION: Colloquial
"Knuckles scarred with kitchen burns."
TONE: Sympathetic
DICTION: Concrete
"Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it."
TONE: Triumphant
DICTION: ABSTRACT
"This city is your city, and this democracy is yours too."
TONE: Empowering
DICTION: Abstract
"Tonight we have stepped out from the old into the new."
TONE: Visionary
DICTION: Poetic
"Together, we will usher in a generation of change."
TONE: Hopeful
DICTION: Formal
"Palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars."
TONE: Respectful
DICTION: Concrete
"We have toppled a political dynasty."
TONE: Confident, Bold
DICTION: Formal
"This victory is for all of them."
TONE: Grateful
DICTION: Colloquial
"In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light."
TONE: Inspirational
DICTION: Poetic
"To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
TONE: Defiant
DICTION: Colloquial
"Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor."
TONE: Sympathetic
DICTION: Concrete
"A mandate for change."
TONE: Determined
DICTION: Formal
"You eroded the cynicism that has come to define our politics."
TONE: Optimistic
DICTION: Abstract
"Hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair."
TONE: Inspirational, Defiant
DICTION: Abstract
"We will leave mediocrity in our past."
TONE: Confident
DICTION: Formal
"I used to love New York, but now it's just where I live."
TONE: Disappointed
DICTION: Colloquial
"Thank you to the next generation of New Yorkers who refuse to accept that the promise of a better future was a relic of the past."
TONE: Appreciative, Hopeful
DICTION: Abstract
"We are breathing in the air of a city that has been reborn."
TONE: Hopeful
DICTION: Poetic
"I will wake each morning with a singular purpose: to make this city better for you than it was the day before."
TONE: Determined
DICTION: Formal
"Most of all, it will be felt by each New Yorker when the city they love finally loves them back."
TONE: Emotional, Hopeful
DICTION: Poetic
"The billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30 an hour that their enemies are those earning $20 an hour."
TONE: Critical
DICTION: Pedantic