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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.

Jill Stein

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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
Peace Activist
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Jill Ellen Stein
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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 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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We have not been successful in deterring the growth or expansion of any terrorist group that we've been fighting.
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The politics of fear has brought us everything we are afraid of, including the endless wars, the collapsing economy - all the rest.
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It turns out we get so much healthier when we convert to a green energy economy that our health savings alone are enough to pay for the cost of the energy transition.
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I have always been involved in issue-based politics, not party politics - I was never really originally drawn to party politics.
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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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I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan Joan Baez Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music, and fell in love with ethnic music of all sorts.
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I think it depends on what agenda that female president brings. It's not good if that female president brings an agenda which is actually hostile to the cause of living wages. Women need equal wages to men, but not equal wages at poverty.
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I was recruited to sort of be the doc to advocate for communities that were struggling with polluting incinerators, polluting coal plants, toxic waste sites, etc.
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We call for a bailout for an entire generation that is basically held hostage by unpayable student-loan debt.
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I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire.
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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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I think, as a white person, I do not want to speak for a black person.
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We call for a new kind of offensive in the Middle East because our current approach has a track record and it's not a good one.
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