I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
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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 want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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 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 know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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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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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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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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