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My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings.
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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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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
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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 want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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