I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZCapitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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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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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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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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It’s not just that I’m a woman of color running for office. It’s the way that I ran. It’s the way that my identity formed my methods.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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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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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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