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

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn’t be in politics, now are saying, ‘Oh, wait, I don’t need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I’ll run, too.’
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The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn’t be afraid to be bold.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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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My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing.
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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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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
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I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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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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