Jill Stein Quotes

I affiliated with Physicians for Social Responsibility early on, and actually, their major thrust wasn't nearly as much around community health centers, although that was Jack Geiger's thing.

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.

I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.

As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself in that. I lived with the illusion, for quite a long time, that if you described something accurately, something would be done about it.

If the enemy could only know that Marcus Garvey is but a John the Baptist in the wilderness, that a greater and more dangerous Marcus Garvey is yet to appear, the Garvey with whom you will have to reckon for the injustice of the present generation.

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.

My duty is to raise the consciousness of the American people.

America needs to be challenged.

I need to get a tiny bit more 'woke.'

Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.

I grew up reading Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

I've worked for everything I've had, and I can't think of a better way of using it than standing up for what's right, and what's required to build a better society.

When I was in high school, people would ask me what I wanted to do, and I would always say I wanted to 'lead marches and give speeches.'

I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.

If you look at the Affordable Care Act, ultimately that was saved not solely by lawmakers but because of the courage of individuals and families who went to Washington, who organized, who mobilized and said 'We're not turning around.'

We have a moral obligation to get healthcare to people who need it.

My mother said, 'Did you ever believe you would be an activist?' I said, 'No, not really.' But I just felt in my heart that I needed to step up and be a leader in the forefront.

My mother informed me that the way to be a change agent to create change, the first line of defense, or however you want to phrase that, is politics and government.

I much more enjoy the company of freedom fighters and justice campaigners than I do the company of hedge fund managers.

While everyone's purpose may be different, with social media we all have that platform to create the change we want to see in the world, and I spend a lot of time encouraging others to step up and use theirs.

You're starting to see more and more athletes recognizing their reach and how much leverage and power that they have in their celebrity and in their platform. And more and more guys are trying to use that leverage to better their communities, to better this country and are speaking out on injustice.