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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
Peace Activist
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Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students.
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It's really quite astounding to see what the science says we can actually do.
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We ended the war in Vietnam, and brought the troops home.
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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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We were out there with the people whose homes were flooded out in Southern Louisiana. We are out there on the front line with everyday people fighting the real frontline battle that real Americans are fighting.
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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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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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We need a new kind of offensive in the Middle East. It's called a peace offensive.
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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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The problem [of climat changing] is only getting worse - that to me underscores that we need a transformative solution.
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Remember, the majority of Donald Trump supporters don't actually support him. They're mainly motivated by not liking Hillary Clinton.
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Historically, if you look back at the struggle to end slavery, the struggle to gain womens' right to vote, the labor movement - these were big social transitions in which there was a movement on the ground in which a lot of people died, but it also took an independent political party.
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Jack Geiger, for example, was a leader of that movement. He was part of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which was kind of one of the ways that I worked my way into social activism in medicine.
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[My mother] was busy being a homemaker and was not an activist by any means.
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We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.
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Hillary [Clinton] has the potential to do a whole lot more damage, get us into more wars, faster to pass her fracking disastrous climate program, much more easily than Donald Trump could do his.
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I'm very careful not to isolate Israel on this but to make this part of a transformed foreign policy where we apply the same standards across the board. So it's not just Israel. It's also Saudi Arabia, it's also Egypt. It's where there are massive and systemic violations of human rights and international law.
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I don't support ObamaCare and see it as a step backward that entrenches the power of the private health care industry.
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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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In terms of the role of the media, that is my candidacy which does provide that truly progressive agenda that gets to the heart of what is driving this right-wing extremism.It's not just Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton is not going to be the solution here.
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