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We face a climate crisis now that is the most serious challenge our civilization has ever confronted. And the greatest country in the world [America] has to remain a part of this unprecedented global agreement to deal with it.

Al Gore

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Al Gore
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 31
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I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'
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No controlling legal authority
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I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.
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