"Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.“


-Martin Sheen

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Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

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