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[My mother] was busy being a homemaker and was not an activist by any means.

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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
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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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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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Right now we have a bipartisan debate commission, when most Americans are not members of the bipartisan establishment.
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I was really interested in how a health care center could also be a center for the arts and for music, and for bringing together sort of the isolated elements of the community.
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Ajamu Baraka comes out of the tradition of the African-American intellectuals, the people who really been standing up for African-American rights and economic rights and workers rights.
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We don't have to convince people how screwed they are.
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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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If people fear that they have to choose between their job or fixing the climate, they will always protect their job. Because that's how they live to see tomorrow.
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Word is sort of spreading by itself, largely among young people. And if word gets out that young people can actually come out to the polls and, in fact, take over this election in order to liberate themselves from life-long debts, we could actually win.
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This is very dangerous for us, as a society, and I think people deserve a politics of integrity that is not bought and paid for by big banks, fossil fuel giants, war profiteers, insurance companies, the things that those two corporate parties both represent and which pull the strings inside the party.
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Who benefits from Wi-Fi? We all benefit from Wi-Fi. Is there an industry here? Of course, there is an industry, as well. The point is public health needs protecting. I don't think you should have to prove that there is some profiteer who might have an ulterior motive in order to protect public health.
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It's not possible to solve the climate crisis while we continue to expand fracking.
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If you've been paying attention to politics for the last, you know, 30 years, it would not have shocked you, but what was amazing was that there it was, you know, in irrefutable colors, you know, there on paper, or there on your computer screen.
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I think, charitable foundations are, in general, a good thing.
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I became really interested in the community health care movement and community health centers, which Boston was sort of a leading center for.
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It's this mingling of the economic and political elite which is really destroying our democracy.
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Even heads of our own security agency said, you know, we need to take a deep breath on this. This really doesn't seem to be happening [that Russians are trying to influence American domestic politics ].
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You don't know what the real problems of a health care system are until you get sick.
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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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If you're working as secretary of state but half of your emails are about your own private business, since when is secretary of state such a leisurely job that half of your time and half of your email are spent on your own private business? There's something really wrong with that picture.
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