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-CORTEZI 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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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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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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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 want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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Not all Democrats are the same.
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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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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 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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn’t be afraid to be bold.
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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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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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