return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 month agoHakeem Jeffries endorses Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayorwww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square33linkfedilinkarrow-up1300arrow-down10cross-posted to: progressivepolitics@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.world
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minus-squarethemeatbridge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up117·1 month ago“Check where my people are going so that I might lead them there.”
minus-squareTinidril@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up57·1 month agoExactly. This wasn’t an endorsement, it was a concession.
minus-squareunexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 month agoThat is a great expression. Is that a quote?
minus-squarePumpkin Escobar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 month agoIt’s used in The West Wing. Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Auguste_Ledru-Rollin suggests it’s not really something he said
minus-squarethemeatbridge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 month agoI think it’s one of those apocryphal quotes that gets misattributed to different people. Most commonly Ledru-Rollin, as Pumpkin Escobar mentioned.
“Check where my people are going so that I might lead them there.”
Exactly. This wasn’t an endorsement, it was a concession.
That is a great expression. Is that a quote?
It’s used in The West Wing. Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Auguste_Ledru-Rollin suggests it’s not really something he said
I think it’s one of those apocryphal quotes that gets misattributed to different people. Most commonly Ledru-Rollin, as Pumpkin Escobar mentioned.