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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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Democracy Design Ourselves Power Talk Truth
I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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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We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.
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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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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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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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Community Kind Myself People
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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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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 wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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