I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZWe know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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 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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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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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 know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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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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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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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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 don’t like having people do little things for me.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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