We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZWorking-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
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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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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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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 want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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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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Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.
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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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Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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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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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I’m not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.
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It’s really scary or it’s easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don’t provide any substance to it.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing.
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Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
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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 don’t like having people do little things for me.
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The only time we create any kind of substantive change is when we reach out to a disaffected electorate and inspire and motivate them to vote.
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I 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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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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