Marty Walsh Quotes

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Marty Walsh

Profession : Politician

Birth : April 10, 1967

It's the only - one thing I've learned in the labor movement is solidarity. We can only overcome the challenges if we stand together.

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We don't wait for a better future, we create it.

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I will fight for good jobs, and public schools and affordable housing, and racial justice and equal rights for all.

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If you want to see how social justice strengthens all of us, look to Boston.

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Boston is home to the world's most innovative thinkers - in science and technology, and in business, art, and architecture.

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As mayor, I made decisions I never thought I'd have to make: to close schools; pause construction; turn our convention center into a field hospital; and cancel the Boston Marathon for the first time in its history.

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Chicken parm is my favorite. I'm not a big fan of sushi.

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Our historic buildings reflect our unique past.

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I live my life a day at a time.

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Mental health is health - period.

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Receiving the care that you need, and are entitled to, shouldn't be a struggle.

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As a white person, you can and should be opposed to racism. You can learn and understand the effects of how it affects people.

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We are looking at it but in a lot of cases gig workers should be classified as employees in some cases they are treated respectfully and in some cases they are not and I think it has to be consistent across the board.

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I have a personal history of intervening in labor negotiations and not negotiating for people: let them negotiate, but sitting at the table.

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As mayor, I was a labor mayor who, if you asked the business community in Boston, they'll say I was a great mayor for business. And I was also a great mayor for workers. We tackled income inequity, and we tackled equal pay for women.

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The fact that people don't like labor unions - when workers say they don't like labor unions, it kind of astonishes me because what I see labor unions doing, they advocate on behalf of working people. They fight for better working conditions. They fight for higher wages.

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Getting into recovery when I was 28 changed my whole life, my whole perspective. It grounded me in a different way.

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I don't think I'd redo anything. Because I think the mistakes I made were needed in my life to shape who I am.

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When Covid-19 came to America, a lot of people were concerned about their health and wishing there was a vaccine at that particular moment. Unfortunately, it got caught up in politics.

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The first job that had a real big impact on my life that I remember the best was I worked at a stationery store when I was in high school. And that job was really where I started to be curious about who I was and what I want to be like as I got older and working-wise.

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