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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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 want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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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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Born Family Father Mom Myself Powerful
The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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Color Identity Myself Office Run Woman
Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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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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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Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I’m not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.
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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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