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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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’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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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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Education Myself Organization
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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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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The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn’t be afraid to be bold.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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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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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’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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