From Minarets to City Hall

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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” —Frederick Douglass

America likes to tell its story as a procession of wars won and enemies defeated. But its deeper moral history, the one that actually bends toward justice, has been written by those who resisted domination: slavery, empire, and the dangerous fiction that violence is the engine of progress.

On a cold January afternoon outside City Hall, Zohran Mamdani stepped into that unfinished struggle.