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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.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.
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Myself Office Run Woman
I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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Born Destiny Determination Myself Place
I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.
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Experience Myself Pain Understand Work
The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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Democracy Politics Queen Way
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 wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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Born Family Father Mom Myself Powerful
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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Myself Run Work
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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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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Color Identity Myself Office Run Woman
We know enough to reject the stereotype that people in the Midwest do not care about their brothers and sisters.
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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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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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Compromise Feminine Mentor Myself Pressure
We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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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 used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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Community Kind Myself People
I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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I’m an educator. I’m an organizer.
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Education Myself Organization
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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Impact Money Pretend Service Source Writing
We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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Age Diversity Representation
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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Family Home Job Myself Profession Start
I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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Day Myself Wake Up Woman
Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.
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Investment Place Run Thinking
Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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Country Democracy Driver Sanitation
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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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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It is unacceptable to be disrespectful of Congressman Crowley. He’s done some phenomenal, phenomenal work for the Bronx and Queens.
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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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