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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

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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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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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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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 wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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