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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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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Apology Country Fight Justice Movement Race
Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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Country Democracy Driver Sanitation
Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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 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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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Democracy Government Myself
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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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 wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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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 to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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For me, democratic socialism is about – really, the value for me is that I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.
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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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