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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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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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Color Identity Myself Office Run Woman
Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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Capital Existence World
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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Children Education Feeling Goodness Life Myself Public Service
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 just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.
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Argument Beyond Hope Ignorance Myself People Repair
For me, democratic socialism is about – really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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Education Myself Organization
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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Acceptance Himself Respect Work
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
When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like… they’ll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
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Direct Feeling Myself People Time
I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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Born Destiny Determination Myself Place
I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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Myself People Small
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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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