“I believe that in this worldview, which is the dominant one, beauty is seen as the only legitimate capital that women are allowed possess. But beauty is supposed to serve power’s interests. When beauty occurs in an “unruly body”, such as a non-white person’s body, then it is an existential threat.”— Tressie McMillan Cottom , tressiemcphd.medium.com
“You know I'm not somebody—like a lot of Americans I'm not somebody that likes to use that term or that is quick to call somebody a racist. I think you have to be very careful before you use that word. However, this president has shown us time and time again from the way that he started his campaign,…”— Julian Castro, cbsnews.com
“I think we both inherently understand how to reach people with wildly different views. She's also much more combative. I try not to be as combative. That's about where the comparison ends. I don't like being compared to her.”— Dan Crenshaw, businessinsider.com
“They will help shape how Ocasio-Cortez works as an activist hoping to refashion the Democratic Party, while she also tries to serve as a more typical member building coalitions and moving legislation.”— Jeff Stein, washingtonpost.com
“Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez will be the future of the country ... until we run out of money.”— Ben Shapiro, townhall.com
“The focus on undeserving minorities receiving unearned benefits at white expense is not an incidental element of modern Republican politics; it is crucial to the GOP’s electoral strategy of dividing working-class voters along racial lines.”— Adam Serwer, theatlantic.com