We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZIt’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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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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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I’m not running from the left; I’m running from the bottom. I’m running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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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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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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It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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