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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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Game Government Old Politics
I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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Day Myself Wake Up Woman
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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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Experience Myself Pain Understand Work
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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Feeling Influence Myself Office Social
Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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Capital Existence World
Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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Clarity Class Radical Time Work
It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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Acceptance Himself Respect Work
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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Fear Ideas Scare Substance Yourself
Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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Democracy Government Myself
Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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 was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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Born Destiny Determination Myself Place
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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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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