Quotes from Maya Wiley

Do you know how many women in a survey reported experiences of sexual harassment on the job? Eighty percent. It is so common. It's normalized. And it's an abuse of power.

Attacking the ability of black people to govern through specious claims that we are a danger to white people is nothing short of disgraceful.

I will work with the governor no matter who the governor is. And I will always be Maya Wiley when I do it. That means I will call it as I see it.

Part of the challenge always with issues of public safety is, you know, fear is real and it has to be recognized as real. I mean, people are fearful for reasons that are not totally irrational, right?

Allowing the big dogs to create a toll lane for public education, public interest and government programming, and to make it more costly to sell products online, will be bad for Black women and our communities.

Far too many people, many of them white men, are losing healthcare insurance as they lose their manufacturing jobs. This is commerce by most real world definitions.

The innovations we need at our systems level require an understanding of business, psychology, and policy, but doing it with a deep, deep understanding of how our decisions create barriers for fairness and opportunity for some people.

Whether a resident needs to get online to access homework or supplemental educational tools, to search for a job or start a business, broadband is a necessity.

In New York, our greatest pride and asset is our diversity. We live in a city that recognizes and celebrates the fact that its residents were born all over this country and globe.

I look forward to demonstrating the greatest integrity of fairness and independence that any arm of the city should have and does have.

We know that one out of three New York City workers is a gig worker, or self-employed, independent contractor. We have all kinds of languages and words for it. I'm very proud to have been co endorsed by the Freelancers Union because of our policy positions on this incredibly important part of our economy.

Like every New Yorker, I know this place is magic. I know this place is amazing. I know that we have come back time and time again from a great recession, from high crime rates, from 9/11, from crisis after crisis.

So, I was in a segregated, all black, public elementary school until fourth grade, until my father died. And that's when my mother transferred me to a private, predominantly white school and I saw both sides of the world at a very young age.

It's not just organizing that demands affordable and fast mobile internet access. Small business owners depend on equal and fair online access for their livelihoods.

For so many people in New York City, childcare and eldercare is a top-three cost of living.

Citizen journalism and even our ethnic press could be harmed by big companies deciding where we can get our news.

When the opportunity came up to do social justice work for the New School in an academic setting, and still be able to support the mayor and be part of the de Blasio family, it was kind of a no-brainer for me.

My father, because he was an academic, he did not shy away from meeting with academics who focused on political science, sociology, he actively embrace that and he didn't shy away from meeting with lawyers.

And if you want partnerships that focus on hard problems and real solutions, then pick a Black woman. Because that's what we do every single day and in every single way.

We don't have to agree on solutions to our problems or who is best positioned to lead us to them.

There is no off-roading to solve income inequality for people of color. They must have broadband.

We have many big problems we need to address in this nation - saving our homes, finding jobs that support our families, plugging into new sources of energy. The way we solve them is to think, talk, debate and work to advance solutions.

Democrats and Republicans agree that police misconduct should be better tracked. But agreement appears to end there.

There are areas of tension and uncertainty the Constitution doesn't address, and presidents of both parties have fought with Congress over their respective roles.