People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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It’s disingenuous to pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
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The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.
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There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can’t do it.
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It’s really scary or it’s easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don’t provide any substance to it.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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It’s not just that I’m a woman of color running for office. It’s the way that I ran. It’s the way that my identity formed my methods.
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We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.
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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
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