Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes
born 1989 United States
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born October 13, 1989) is an American politician and educator. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the U.S.
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Also known as: Ocasio-Cortez, AOC
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It is utterly embarrassing that “pay people enough to live” is a stance that’s even up for debate.
I will not yield because it was a terribly disrespectful comment, and I will not yield to disrespectful men.
You shouldn’t need a Bible to tell you to protect our planet, but it does anyway.
Forced pregnancy is a crime against humanity.
People really need to ask themselves why their communities chose to erect statues to slaveholders instead of abolitionists.
Charity can’t replace policy, but solidarity is how we’ll face climate change and build a better world.
True love is radical because it requires us to see ourselves in all people. Otherwise, it isn’t love. Love is revolutionary because it has us treat ALL people as we would ourselves - not because we are charitable, but because we are one. That is love’s radical conclusion.
I do think that we’ve been taking it too much. I think we’ve been tolerating the intolerable.
Billionaires need the working class. The working class does not need billionaires.
Personally, I’m looking forward to digging into the student loan crisis, examining for-profit prisons/ICE detention, and exploring the development of public & postal banking. To start.
* I think he should apologize for the deliberate conflation and attack on these terms
Reminder that their plan = no plan. Why? Because for billionaires, things are already going fine.
Good evening, bienvenidos, and thank you to everyone here today endeavoring towards a better, more just future for our country and our world.
The entire PREMISE of a wall is not based in fact. It’s based in a racist + non-evidence based trope that immigrants are dangerous. Yet some Dems are willing to “compromise” & spend BILLIONS on a trope because we’ve accepted some kinds of racism as realpolitik in America.
Susan Collins is not a moderate. She just plays one on TV.
If those promises do not get fulfilled, it will make future passage of anything much more difficult. BIF will look like a cakewalk
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No child should ever be separated from their parent. No child should ever taken from their family. No woman should ever be locked up in a pen when they have done no harm to another human being.
It is actually not about a wall, it is not about the border, and it is certainly not about the well-being of everyday Americans... The truth is, this shutdown is about the erosion of American democracy and the subversion of our most basic governmental norms.