Quotations

"We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language."

— Joyce Carol Oates, American author, born 1938

"Yes We Can!"

— Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, born 1961

"We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it."

— Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, born 1961

"To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It's asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It's one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live."

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, American politician, born 1989

"Nobody ever wins the first time they run for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win their first bid for office. Nobody's ever supposed to win without taking lobbyists' money. No one's ever supposed to defeat an incumbent. No one's ever supposed to run a grassroots campaign without running any ads on television. We did all of those things."

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, American politician, born 1989

"Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States."

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, American politician, born 1989

"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, American politician, born 1989

"It's disingenuous to pretend the sources of our money don't impact the policy we write - you just can't serve two masters."

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, American politician, born 1989

"Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power."

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, American politician, born 1989

"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, American politician, born 1989

"I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings."

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, American politician, born 1989

"It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win."

— Phil Ochs, American protest singer, born 1940

"Even though you can’t expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That’s morality, that’s religion. That’s art. That’s life."

— Phil Ochs, American protest singer, born 1940

"The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it."

— Odetta, American singer, born 1930