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In the words of Frederick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand it never has and it never will. We must be that demand. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
Peace Activist
Physician
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Chicago
Illinois
Jill Ellen Stein
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