"Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle……" — Ralph Nader
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations."
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83 Quotes by Ralph Nader
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- If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.
- The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the…
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- As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.
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- If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.
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