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-CORTEZI wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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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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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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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 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 wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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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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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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