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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.
    - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • 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
  • What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.
    - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second.
    - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • 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.
    - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
    - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, 'What are we fighting against?'
    - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • I don't like having people do little things for me.
    - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • In terms of closing Rikers, we have to close Rikers, but we have to ensure that we're not just taking - that we're not continuing to incarcerate the same level of people. It doesn't do us much good if we close Rikers and then take that same amount of people and just distribute them to be incarcerated elsewhere.
    - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez