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Michelle Wu (born January 14, 1985) is an American lawyer and politician who is currently the mayor of Boston. She previously served on the Boston City Council as the first Taiwanese American council member and first Asian American woman council member in Boston's history.
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Anyone in a position of leadership should be using that position to build trust in vaccines.
If there's anything more exhausting than having to battle for our basic human rights, it's letting them go without a fight.
There is no statute of limitations on addressing wrongs that we have the ability to make right.
What we need to just connect all the dots is leadership that has that sense of bold aspiration, urgent action, and community-based vision.
Boston is the birthplace of public education—founded on the belief that knowledge belongs to everyone. But we have yet to deliver on that vision.
Justice for all means reproductive justice, gender justice, queer justice. Liberty for all means the all-inclusive freedoms that guarantee every person agency over their own body.
We’re charting a new course for growth, with people as our compass.
Freedom is not a thing that we have, but a thing that we do.
A city that's scared is not a city that's safe. A land ruled by fear is not the land of the free.
Boston is a city that will never stop reaching—up toward the progress we know to be possible, and out to the community whose work makes it lasting.
Boston is not a city that takes our rights lightly. Here in the birthplace of revolution, we have always, always fought for each other. We're damn good at it.
Every young person deserves to grow up in a city with wide open spaces that coax our legs into running—that remind us to breathe deep and look up at the sky.
We all benefit when we stamp out injustice. We are all healthier when reproductive care is available to our communities. We are all free only if we are all free.
If we want Boston to be a thriving, competitive, global city...we can’t continue to sabotage ourselves by taking a piecemeal, reactive, bare-minimum approach to public transit.
There is power in being open and honest about your "behind-the-scenes." In showing others that sometimes it's okay not to be okay. Because those moments are all a part of a longer, and larger, process of becoming who we are.
None of us move through this world as individuals in isolation. We are all the constellations of people in our lives who believe in us, trust us, and empower us to do the work that it takes to make each moment possible.
Together, we can build a Boston that’s more green than concrete. Where housing is a given, not a godsend, and mobility is the minimum, not a miracle. Where the things we build inspire—but don’t define—us; and where each generation shines brighter than the last.
In general, we need to think about safety and healing as one system, because when we think about law enforcement on its own, and public health on its own, we’re not making the right investments relative to what actually delivers safety and health for our community members.
Here in Boston, in Massachusetts, we will do what we do best: We will fight back, fiercely—for our freedoms and for each other. This moment does not belong to the far right. It belongs to us, like our bodies. And we decide what to do with it.
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