Jill Stein Quotes
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.
Stein, Jill. CNN Green Party Town Hall. Cable News Network, 17 Aug. 2016.
He was elected to Parliament while in jail and never took his seat as he died of a hunger strike in jail.
He advocated no cooperation with the British Colonial Administration which depended on Indian officials, administrators, clerks and other workers. The boycott strategy never worked in this case, but civil disobedience did. Boycott did work against the apartheid regime in South Africa a half century later however.
Saloth Sar Pol Pot. His view was that any small merchant or tradesman running a business was a capitalist, and all educated were enemies of the people. He moved entire populations out of the cities into the countryside where they would live as peasants or be murdered as about 20% of the entire population as. Therefore, in his warped view, the capitalists could no longer “control” Cambodia.
Jill Ellen Stein is an American physician, activist, and former political candidate. She was the Green Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 and 2016 elections and the Green-Rainbow Party's candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 2002 and 2010. During her campaigns for President, she campaigned on the theme of a Green New Deal which included a number of reforms to address climate change, income inequality as well as civil and political rights reform. In 2012, Stein was on the ballot in 37 states and received 469,501 votes (0.36% of the popular vote). In 2016, she was on the ballot in 45 states and received 1,457,216 votes and 1.07% of the popular vote.
