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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.

Jill Stein

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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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