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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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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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 an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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.
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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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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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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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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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.
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