We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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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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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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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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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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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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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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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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It’s disingenuous to pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.
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