“You shouldn’t need a Bible to tell you to protect our planet, but it does anyway.”

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Twitter post, https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1088200189524017157 (23 January 2019) <br class="br">Twitter Quotes (2019), January 2019

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