Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZIt’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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People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.
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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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 want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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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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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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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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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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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 knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
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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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