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Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Ralph Nader

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Ralph Nader
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 27
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Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.
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We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.
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Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.
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As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.
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There are some people in this world who would never plant a seed because it doesn't produce fruit the first season.
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Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they have libraries and schools and bridges and highways that have not been repaired.
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Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.
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The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.
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The clinical definition of fascism is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.
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In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, when I report saying that I got about five minutes on all the networks after Labor Day to election day: only five minutes even though I, like you, were representing majoritarian issues.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
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Let's run through the various ways they're trying to marginalize the Green Party and even the Libertarian Party. One way is to keep you off the mass media.
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Is there a number or mark planned for the hand or forehead in a new cashless society? YES, and I have seen the machines that are now ready to put it into operation.
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President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our freedom, to our economy, and what we have now is a gigantic taxpayer draining empire that is devouring itself, which, as you say, it's creating more resistance, more fighting, against us oversees.
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