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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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I always say there's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question that gets the ball rolling.
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Secrecy destroys accountability.
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The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.
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Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform.
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Whatever your issue is, whether it's racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you're not going to go anywhere with it if we don't focus on the concentration of power.
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This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out.
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I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.
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This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now.
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John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
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We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I suppose the Green Party doesn't care for the anti-civil libertarian provisions of the notoriously named Patriot Act, invading privacy, and being able to search your home, and not tell you for 72 hours.
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The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
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Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication.
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Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory.
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Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
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We've got to get rid of this discrimination, this chilling, this bigotry toward gays and lesbians that are reflected in literally hundreds and hundreds of statutes and regulations in this country.
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The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.
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You see that gap is exactly how they can marginalize and exclude people from giving the voters more voices and choices.
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I enjoy my work so much that I have to be pulled away from my work into leisure.
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