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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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 don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn’t be afraid to be bold.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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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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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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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’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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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Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I’m not going to do that. That takes away my power. I’m not going to compromise who I am.
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We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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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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Public schools in the late ’80s and early ’90s were a total mess… we felt that if I was going to have a good educational option in my life, I would have to go to a public school district that actually served its children.
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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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When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like… they’ll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
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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 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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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