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I think, as a white person, I do not want to speak for a black person.

Jill Stein

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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
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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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I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.
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One of the great things about running with Ajamu Baraka is that we speak to all of America.
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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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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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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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The specific trigger for me was when the President [Barack Obama] put Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block. Why I got into the race - it just seemed unconscionable that the Democrats were leading the charge.
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The Republicans are... there is a small [Donald] Trump remnant, which is going over the cliff right now.
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I usually walk six miles a day.I take my cellphone and I go out on the bike path and I just walk and work.
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It's really quite astounding to see what the science says we can actually do.
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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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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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I actually studied Indian classical vocal music.
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We have not been successful in deterring the growth or expansion of any terrorist group that we've been fighting.
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Democratic Party elites have been caught red-handed, sabotaging a grassroots campaign that tried to bring huge numbers of young people, independents and non-voters into their party. Instead, they have shown exactly why America needs a new major party, a truly democratic party for the people.
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The key here in my view is not having to change people's minds, it's just allowing them to know.
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I don't pretend to be able to do TV diagnosis, but I think the guy [Donald Trump] has a problem.
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We cannot simultaneously fight terrorism, we and our allies, while with the other hand we fund terrorism, arm terrorism and train terrorism.
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You have endorsements, everyone from Meg Whitman to the neocon John Negroponte and others who are all saying, you know, we're with Hillary [Clinton] now.
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[Hillary Clinton'] transition director being Ken Salazar, I think, indicates that she will continue to be a friend to fracking. It's not possible to solve the climate crisis while we continue to expand fracking.
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