As Frederick Douglas, the famous abolitionist, said: "power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will." You need the truth, and you also need a demand, and you need to bring that demand into the realm of electoral politics. If you don't do that, it's very hard to get such an entrenched machine to move.
As Frederick Douglas, the ...
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I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire.
I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire. You could say, very concerned about our younger generation that does not have the jobs they need to get themselves out of the debt that they're in. And have the full weight of the climate crisis exploding on them - on their watch.
I used to practice clinical medicine. Now I practice political medicine, because it's the mother of all illnesses.
[My parents] were very interested in social justice issues, and there was a time, very early on, where my mother, I think, actually went to some demonstrations for integrating housing.
[My mother] was busy being a homemaker and was not an activist by any means.