It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI 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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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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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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When people feel like they are being spoken directly to, I do feel like… they’ll do things like turn out in an off-year, mid-year primary.
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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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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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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We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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It’s disingenuous to pretend the sources of our money don’t impact the policy we write – you just can’t serve two masters.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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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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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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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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