Tag: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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I don’t like having people do little things for me.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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I started my campaign out of a Trader Joe’s bag with a bunch of printed palm cards and an idea.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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I can’t name a single issue with roots in race that doesn’t have economic implications, and I cannot think of a single economic issue that doesn’t have racial implications. The idea that we have to separate them out and choose one is a con.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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At Standing Rock, we experienced, first-hand, people coming together in their communities and trying to use the levers of representative democracy to try and say, ‘We don’t want this in our community; we don’t want this in our backyard,’ and corporations using their monetary influence to completely erode that process.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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What we need to do is lay out a plan and a vision that people can believe in. And getting into Twitter fights with the president is not exactly where we’re going to find progress as a nation.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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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.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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I do think that sometimes, especially coming into this going straight from activism to being a candidate or to being a person who potentially, you know, looks like will be holding political office soon, I think we expect our politicians to be perfect and fully formed and on point on every single issue.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez