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This is the first generation to know that the choices we're making have ultimate consequences. It's a time when you either choose life or you choose death ... Going along with the current order means that you're choosing death.

Frances Moore Lappé

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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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