Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

There are plenty of African-Americans in this country - and I would say this goes right up to the White House - who are not by any means poor, but are very much afflicted by white supremacy.

It's more dangerous to be black in America...If you are a normal white American, the truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level of discrimination and the level of additional risk in a way that you have to be corrected.

This nation’s racial history still casts its long shadow upon us.

The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few will admit is there.

Democrats don't understand what is wrong in the black community or how to fix it. If they do, they don't care.

Systemic racism is something that diminishes all of us. Of course its worst effects are for its victims, but our entire country is held back through the inequality and the mistrust that it creates.

In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

White folks, no matter how well-meaning or open-minded, have no true idea what it's like to be black in America. That's not a slam against white people or an accusation of latent bigotry. But the fact is that we all live in an Anglo-dominated society.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.

There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

If I were white, I could capture the world.

Most people don't think about race as much as I do. They don't have to.

It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.

If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.

Many white Americans resist relinquishing the sense of entitlement skin color has given them throughout our national history.

Negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment.

America is yours [Whites] today because of crime and violence.