Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZOur democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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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.
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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’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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 wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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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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