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.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZI want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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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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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.
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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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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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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 don’t like having people do little things for me.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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 know what it’s like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
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