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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.

Ralph Nader

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Ralph Nader
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: February 27
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