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I think we have a very critical role to play, within the spectrum of international law and human rights.

Jill Stein

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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
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Today, suddenly, after, what, five years, suddenly he [Donald Trump] became convinced that it's not an issue. Yesterday it was an issue. It will probably become an issue again for him. You know, the guy may have a memory problem.
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We call for a weapons embargo.
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Yet we have a voting system that forbids us from actually bringing our values into our vote, which is, in my view, quite a disaster.
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We call for a welcoming path to citizenship, an end to police violence, and a transformed foreign policy based on international law and human rights - not based on these policies of regime change and economic and military domination.
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We the voters demand the right to be in charge here, to be informed, to be empowered.
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I don't trust their [Bill and Hillary Clinton ] sense of boundaries.
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If we're not in the debates there will be no real discussion of climate change, because Hillary Clinton's policy does not begin to address the threat.
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I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.
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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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[My parents] were very interested in social justice issues, and there was a time, very early on, where my mother, I think, actually went to some demonstrations for integrating housing.
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In order to fight militarism under Hillary Clinton or under Donald Trump, it's very important that we cast a vote on behalf of peace and on international - and a policy based on international law and human rights.
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Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.
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We call for cancelling student debt, for bailing out young people like Wall Street was bailed out to the tune of $16 trillion.
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Democracy cannot function just on who do we fear the most, you know, or who do we hate the most we need an affirmative agenda.
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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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We don't have to convince people how screwed they are.
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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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We need a broad commitment to human rights across the board. We cannot attain that simply by protecting one oppressed group or the other.
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This administration [of Barack Obama] has massively expanded fossil fuel extraction. So while they give lip service to it, they actually do not walk the walk that we need to walk if we are going to get out of here alive.
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That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe.
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