We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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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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Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I’m not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn’t be in politics, now are saying, ‘Oh, wait, I don’t need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I’ll run, too.’
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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 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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