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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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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Public schools in the late ’80s and early ’90s were a total mess… we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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I know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
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Access Born Destiny Myself Privilege
I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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Community Kind Myself People
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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Compromise Feminine Mentor Myself Pressure
Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn’t have any of those things.
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Feeling Influence Myself Office Social
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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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Capital Existence World
Not all Democrats are the same.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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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Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I’m not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.
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