We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZPeople 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.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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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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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
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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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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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