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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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 don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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 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 an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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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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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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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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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