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To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
Actor
Author
Civil Rights Advocate
Climate Activist
Educator
Essayist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Eatonton
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Alice Malsenior Walker
Alice Walker Leventhal
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker
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After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?
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