I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZCapitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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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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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.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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 don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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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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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 just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.
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Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
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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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