Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

Class still matters in Britain today.

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

It is surprising how few references in our politics there are to the underclass as compared by the middle class.

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in life. It's not that you can't, but it becomes harder. Inequality is one of the worst things that can exist in our society, so I am interested in those kind of things.

A person’s zip code shouldn’t decide their destiny.

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

Poverty is unnecessary.

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream.

The American dream is dead for the majority of America.

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

Poverty affects people of all races.

Money can't buy poverty.

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.

You're either ghetto or you're not.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.