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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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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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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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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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 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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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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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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 was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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