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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZWe have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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 was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I’m not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.
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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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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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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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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