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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

Born Build Burn Father Myself
We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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Brother Family People Rejection Sister
Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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Investment Place Run Thinking
Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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Myself Office Run Woman
I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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Experience Myself Pain Understand Work
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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Compromise Feminine Mentor Myself Pressure
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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Children Education Feeling Goodness Life Myself Public Service
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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Myself Run Work
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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Democracy Live Myself Poor Rich Social Value
I’m very hands-on about social media. That’s my voice.
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Hands Social Media Voice
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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Feeling Influence Myself Office Social
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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Change Identify People Try
I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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Education Myself Organization
I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn’t be in politics, now are saying, ‘Oh, wait, I don’t need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I’ll run, too.’
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Money Myself People Politics Thinking
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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Fight Message People Propose Rival
Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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Game Government Old Politics