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Ajamu Baraka comes out of the tradition of the African-American intellectuals, the people who really been standing up for African-American rights and economic rights and workers rights.

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Jill Stein
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: May 14
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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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I have had a long tug-of-war going on with the FDA, in particular, and with other regulatory agencies, and it has nothing to do with vaccines.
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[My mother] was busy being a homemaker and was not an activist by any means.
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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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We helped generate that international law coming out of a very difficult and hard-won experiences in the First and Second World War. And I think we need to abide by that experience and our good judgment coming out of these catastrophes. We need to support that.
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That's in part what the Green New Deal is designed to do. So it's not only to address the climate emergency, but also to address the economic emergency, because the recovery has really gone to the top.
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We got the Supreme Court, we pressured the Supreme Court into supporting women's rights to choose.
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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 need a new kind of offensive in the Middle East. It's called a peace offensive.
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Is there's always an idea that the party will continue the movement but that movement always dies inside the Democratic Party.
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Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil.
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Our fundraising went up about a thousand percent and that's largely been sustained.
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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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The policies that Hillary [Clinton] advocates are going to be more of the same, whether you're looking at her cozy relationships with the banks, her refusal to support Glass-Steagall, her vagueness about what actually she's going to do about the control of the big banks.
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We need a nonpartisan debate commission that actually allows candidates, who are on the ballot in enough states that they could win the election - voters not only have a right to vote, we have a right to know who we can vote for.
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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 actually studied Indian classical vocal music.
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The corporate-powered parties are not gonna do it for us, not the greater or the lesser evil. We have to do it for ourselves. And the minute we stand up and stand together, we are unstoppable.
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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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I'm sorry. If you're working as secretary of state, you do not have time to be spending half of your volume of emails on your own private stuff, whether it's a nonprofit private business or whether it is a for-profit private business. You should not be doing that on company time.
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