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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Brother Family People Rejection Sister
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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Community Fear Government Politics
We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Fight Message People Propose Rival
Public schools in the late ’80s and early ’90s were a total mess… we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Children Education Feeling Goodness Life Myself Public Service
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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Clear Community Ourselves Voice Vote
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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

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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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Born Build Burn Father Myself
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Democracy Design Ourselves Power Talk Truth
I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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
There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can’t do it.
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History Implication Race Talk Yourself
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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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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