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Why I'm Not Running for President
Steinem, Gloria | July 20, 1992 issue

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Having spent most of his adult life in social justice movements-from living in post-Gandhian India to working in the civil rights, farm worker and peace movements in the United States, and most of all, in the feminist movement--The author have been constant proof that revolutions are like houses: They can't be built from the top down. Leaders can issue blueprints, which people then adapt to our needs or quietly sabotage. Even more than our tangible problems, this country's ailment is an almost terminal passivity, cynicism and expertitis. Along with obstructionist registration laws and voting procedures, this is the reason we have a lower voter turnout than any other democracy in the world.

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PRESIDENTS -- United States; SUBVERSIVE activities; CIVIL rights; SOCIAL justice; POLITICAL doctrines; DEMOCRACY; UNITED States
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