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As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

Ralph Nader

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Ralph Nader
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 27
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Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans.
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We have two parties who are basically hijacking our country for their corporate paymasters. And if we focus on 535 members of Congress, that's not all that many, we're going to see a fast turnaround. So focus all your concerns, all the information, the kind of agenda the Green Party has. Turn it right on your Senators and Representatives.
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For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.
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The corporations have become our government. They're not just influential. Department by department, you name it, they put their people in high government positions, they have 10,000 PACs and 35,000 lobbyists, so there's no more opening to be heard.
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