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There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in our society who have never held office and made a difference.

Dennis Kucinich

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Dennis Kucinich
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 8
Former U.S. Representative
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Cleveland
Ohio
Dennis John Kucinich
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And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.
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The United States must reach out to the world community with a new plan to stabilize Iraq, bring U.N. peacekeepers in, and bring U.S. troops home.
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War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.
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We have a right to defend ourselves, but we don't have a right to aggress.
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If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims of the way we see the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the person next to you as a part of yourself.
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The FDA has received over a million comments from citizens demanding labeling of GMOs. 90 percent of Americans agree. So, why no labeling?
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I live in the same house I purchased in 1971 for $22,500. I think we need to increase the minimum wage and so all my neighbors can get an increase in their wages.
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The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.
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There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.
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I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.
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We cannot avert our eyes without staining our souls.
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I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.
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We cannot take the president off the hook for an illegal war that was based on lies.
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America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.
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But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.
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I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.
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If you want to rock the Vote, You have to Rock the Boat.
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It is fear which leads us to war, ... It is fear which leads us to believe that we must kill or be killed. Fear which leads us to attack those who have not attacked us. Fear which leads us to ring our nation in the very heavens with weapons of mass destruction.
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My aspirations for this country would be on the scope of what Franklin Roosevelt brought to this country in 1932 when he saw a nation that was broken economically.
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I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured, over a million Iraqis dead. It will cost $5 trillion in the end for the war.
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