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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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I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn't do anything,' because, frankly, it's said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change.

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If you're differently-abled, if you're a person of color, if you express your identity in a way that's different from the norm, for whatever reason, there's an implicit bias where people, frankly, sometimes take you less seriously.

~Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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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Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.

~Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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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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.

~Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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'm an educator. I'm an organizer.

~Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: October 13th, 1989

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