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It takes truth, and it takes speaking truth to power, but because the stranglehold is so tight it seems to take something else - a real political threat.

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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
Peace Activist
Physician
Politician
Chicago
Illinois
Jill Ellen Stein
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Even the voters behind Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, for the most part, do not support them, but actually are mostly afraid of the other candidate.
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The clock is ticking. It's time to stand up. Reject the lesser evil and that propaganda. Reject the lesser evil. Fight for the greater good like our lives depend on it, because they do. We're running out of time. It's time to stand up.
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By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.
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We ended the war in Vietnam, and brought the troops home.
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Democracy needs a moral compass.
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We deserve elections we can trust.
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When you actually integrate the health savings from an improved food system, eliminating food deserts, ensuring that everyone can afford a healthy diet, that you don't have to be sort of a person of substantial means in order to have access to healthy food, there are remarkable health improvements.
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That is enough to win a three-way presidential race. If young people understand they have the numbers and they have the power to come out and turn this election on its head.
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To my mind, to say that says to young people and you probably are not going to get out of debt, and you probably do not have a climate that's going to be here come 2050. And, in my view, the point is not necessarily to win now but it's to begin building our power.
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We need to have real science, and real science doesn't happen under the hand of lobbyists with a conflict of interest. So get the revolving door done and over with and get the big money out of politics.
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I was at Harvard Medical School and there were not a lot of, kind of, community health options, and I wound up at - sort of in Harvard Community Health Center for various reasons.
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I feel very sorry for people who are trapped in an abusive relationship and keep making excuses for their abuser.
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Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil.
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Even the majority of their own voters do not support them. It's something like 25 percent of [Donald] Trump supporters that actually support him. The majority actually hates Hillary [Clinton], and the same is true for Hillary. One-third of her supporters really like her. They dislike fear and hate Donald Trump. What's wrong with this picture?
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Let me say, it's - what a commentary it is on American media that you have to go to Russian television in order to get covered as a candidate in this election. It's pretty outrageous. And our media could solve that in a heartbeat if they actually opened it up, you know, but they don't. So I think that's more commentary on the crisis in our media.
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We have a system that's really founded on profit and on selling pharmaceuticals as opposed to keeping people healthy and then helping them get back to health.
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The laws of war right now say that we can respond when our country is threatened. That is what international law says.
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We are plunging headlong into a cold war, and we have 2,000 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.
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In my experience what I'm hearing from people now is that they're just desperate to hear about something else.
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Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify NATO?
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