Born #OTD in 1941, Bernie Sanders.

A quote🧵
[we've got to ...]
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The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.

Bernie Sanders
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Maybe it's a radical idea, but I believe a job should lift workers out of poverty -- not keep them in it.

Bernie Sanders
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Offshore tax havens are nothing but legalized tax fraud and the fiscally responsible thing, and the just thing, to do is to eliminate them.

Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution
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As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt reminded us: “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

Bernie Sanders, Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
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Democracy is not a spectator sport

Bernie Sanders
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We are living in a nation which worships wealth rather than caring for the poor. I don’t think that is the nation we should be living in.

Bernie Sanders, Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution
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Republicans have cultivated, into a fine art, the ability to divide people up by race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation. That’s what they do. That is the essence of their politics.

Bernie Sanders, Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
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It is a challenge that progressives face throughout the country. We lose when we are divided. We win when we are united.

Bernie Sanders, Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
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It turned out that Republicans loved veterans very much, except when it came to funding their needs.

Bernie Sanders, Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
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When we stand together there is nothing, nothing, nothing we cannot accomplish.

Bernie Sanders

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