I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZWe have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, ‘What are we fighting against?’
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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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 just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.
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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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I know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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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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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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 very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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