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The corporate-powered parties are not gonna do it for us, not the greater or the lesser evil. We have to do it for ourselves. And the minute we stand up and stand together, we are unstoppable.

Jill Stein

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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
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Jill Ellen Stein
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We could solve this problem of a divided vote, or an unintended consequence of your vote, to a voting system which uses your name, where I am right now, they've got it on the ballot for a statewide referendum which enables people to.
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Many years ago I was part of a public health movement that raised concerns about the mercury in vaccines and about the heavy dose that infants get - used to. They don't anymore.
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[My mother] was busy being a homemaker and was not an activist by any means.
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Maybe he [Bernie Sanders] still thinks about the Democratic Party as the party of the New Deal.
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I think public health is kind of in a very sad state of affairs here in this country.
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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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There are very complicated issues here [about NATO], and I don't want to give them short shrift.
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Twenty million jobs is what we call for in the Green New Deal, which is essentially a New Deal focused on greening the economy on an emergency basis. So it's 20 million jobs, which are mixed, private sector, nonprofits, government jobs where others will not do the job and will not create the employment.
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I don't think people were overmedicated, but I think health care cannot stop in the clinic. If all we do is throw pills and procedures at people after they're already sick and we don't deal with what's making them sick to start with, that's a real problem.
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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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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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The Democratic Party is very afraid of having competition that is actually unmuzzled and that can tell the truth, which is why they keep this fear voting system in place.
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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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Average wages now are still just barely above poverty, and one out of three Americans cannot afford healthcare even with the insurance,with jobs.
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Is there's always an idea that the party will continue the movement but that movement always dies inside the Democratic Party.
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They [Democrats] are not just going up, they are accelerating on their way up.
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the most disliked and untrusted candidates for president in American history.
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I was recruited to sort of be the doc to advocate for communities that were struggling with polluting incinerators, polluting coal plants, toxic waste sites, etc.
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In the words of Alice Walker, the biggest way people give up power is by not knowing we have it to start with. We have it: just to look at the power of fighting student debt or 25 million Latinos who learned that the Republicans are the party that hate and fear but Democrats are the party of people deportation and detention.
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I think it would be a disaster if Donald Trump is elected. It will also be a disaster if Hillary Clinton is elected.
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