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Democracy needs to start with an open Presidential debate. So come on out and let's take back the promise of our democracy.

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 got the Supreme Court, we pressured the Supreme Court into supporting women's rights to choose.
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We've got a lot of down-ballot candidates that are also being lifted up by this campaign [for Presidency in 2016]. If we don't take a stand at some point and begin to stand our ground, we are never going to begin to move forward. We've got to do that.
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[My parents] were very interested in social justice issues, and there was a time, very early on, where my mother, I think, actually went to some demonstrations for integrating housing.
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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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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 also call for a freeze on the bank accounts of those countries, including our allies, with due warning.
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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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We could solve this problem of a divided vote, or an unintended consequence of your vote, to a voting system which uses your name, where I am right now, they've got it on the ballot for a statewide referendum which enables people to.
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Bernie's campaign was very principled in most regards, I think, you know, he certainly didn't go far enough in questioning the military policy, the military-industrial complex, and so on, but you know I think that's the price you pay for being in the Democratic Party. And Bernie [Sanders] has to pay that price.
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We ended the war in Vietnam, and brought the troops home.
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Democracy needs a moral compass.
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We the voters demand the right to be in charge here, to be informed, to be empowered.
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They [Democrats] are not just going up, they are accelerating on their way up.
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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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You cannot solve the climate crisis if you are putting people out of work.
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You don't do that while you're being paid by taxpayers to do a very difficult and full-time job, and you also do not bring Clinton Foundation interests into the domain of the secretary of state, and you do not give preferred access to your own personal clients.
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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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Maybe Bernie [Sanders] lost his perspective because he became a part of the Washington culture. Maybe it's a generational thing.
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By needlessly provoking him [Vladimir Putin] and humiliating him, we empower far worse possibilities in Russia.
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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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