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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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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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As Bernie Sanders himself said, you know, the [Donald] Trump movement reflects the economic despair and misery that's been inflicted not only on the American people but people around the world.
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The next Wall Street crash is just around the corner. The meltdown of the climate is coming. The wolves are at the door, all kinds of them. We need to stand up and provide the solutions that are there, that are affordable.
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That is enough to win a three-way presidential race. If young people understand they have the numbers and they have the power to come out and turn this election on its head.
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The majority of American voters have rejected both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
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Neoliberalism, arguably, sets the course for this kind for this kind of neo-extremism, this right-wing extremism that we are facing. The only way we solve that crisis, the rise of the right-wing extreme, is by truly progressive policies that address this crisis of economic security. That will not come from the lesser evil.
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My support is particularly Bernie Sanders supporters but that's drawn many [Donald] Trump supporters to start with.
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We deserve elections we can trust.
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Remember, Bernie [Sanders] was the guy. He was the one guy that could win this, and head-to-head he could go against [Donald] Trump and win.
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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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It's not possible to solve the climate crisis while we continue to expand fracking.
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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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It takes truth, and it takes speaking truth to power, but because the stranglehold is so tight it seems to take something else - a real political threat.
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There was really interesting work going on, for example, in the Mississippi bayou, where there were some really exemplary health centers that also became centers with kind of political organizing.
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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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If pigs could fly, yes, of course I would vote for the Democratic Party, but pigs don't fly.
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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 was in a community where we were out demonstrating. We were holding vigils against the Vietnam War, in - like, starting in around '67, I think, before it really exploded as a big movement.
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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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One of the great things about running with Ajamu Baraka is that we speak to all of America.
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Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify NATO?
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