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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.

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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The problem [of climat changing] is only getting worse - that to me underscores that we need a transformative solution.
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I found that the walls that are created by the institutions of health care are very problematic, and I felt not good about giving people pills and procedures and then sending them back out to the things that were making them sick in the first place.
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The [Democratic] party pulled out its kill switch against Bernie [Sanders] and sabotaged him. As we saw from the emails revealed, showing the collusion between the Democratic National Committee, Hillary's campaign, and members of the corporate media.
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If pigs could fly, yes, of course I would vote for the Democratic Party, but pigs don't fly.
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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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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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Who knows what it is, but he [Donald Trump] is incapable of having a consistent thought or policy.
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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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In other words, speaking truth as a social movement may move you forward in some ways, but to really lock in and have real enduring change, it takes both a movement on the ground and an independent political party that is itself the defiance of that two-party corporate big-money control of politics.
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To millennials, the Democratic Party is the party of endless debt, it is the party of low-wage jobs, it is the part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, it is the party of the KXL pipeline, which was only stopped because, you know, because we, the voters, you know, just worked our bones - you know, worked ourselves to the bone in order to stop it.
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That's not to say they [Bill and Hillary Clinton] intend to be corrupt, but I think they're way too cozy with the economic elite, and we know that our political system exemplifies the power of the economic elite.
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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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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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There is no such thing as a survivable or local nuclear war.
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