I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZOur democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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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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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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 wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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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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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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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 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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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