A Quote by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny. — © Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
We can and will make Chicago a place where your ZIP code doesn't determine your destiny.
Education is important. And the difference of the zip code you grow up in or the zip code you are born in and how you turn out really isn't fair to the kids of our world.
Your longevity and health are more determined by your ZIP code than they are by your genetic code.
We are an aspirational society. We believe that circumstances of your birth do not determine your outcome. You shouldn't have to be born to wealthy parents or the right zip code to be successful and do great things in our country!
In America, your zip code or your socioeconomic status should never determine the quality of your education.
Your zip code or your income level should not dictate your access to healthy drinking water.
A person’s zip code shouldn’t decide their destiny.
What you think determines your outlook on life. What you do determines your destiny.
By your words, you form your destiny - what you say within yourself determines the end promise of your life! Your future lives in your mouth!
The quality of your public education shouldn't be defined by your zip code.
To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."
There is nothing more personal than your values. What you will and won't do to get ahead, the lines you will and won't cross to win, whom you will and won't step on for personal gain, are at the very core of your code of honor. And your code of honor determines your character. And your character is who you are. Behind closed doors. When nobody is watching.
The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.
Your behavior determines, to some extent, the destiny of your nation and your group.
If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.
No child's future should ever be dictated by what zip code they were born in.
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