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The 14 February 2018 mass shooting that left seventeen people dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida reignited a debate about gun control — thanks, in large part, to the #NeverAgain campaign started by its survivors. As the students of the school stepped into the limelight to demand change, a quote from the school's namesake about activism emerged: This is a genuine, albeit slightly edited, quote, correctly attributed to the journalist, women's suffrage advocate, and environmental activist who spent much of her life fighting for the conservation of the Florida Everglades. Douglas, who passed away in 1998 at the age of 108 (!), wrote the following passage in a 1980 article entitled How You Can Protect the Environment published in the journal GeoJourney. We have not been able to track down this particular issue, but her quote (and the appropriate citation) appears in several books. Author Mary Joy Brenton provided a more comprehensive version of this quote in her book Women Pioneers For the Environment: Marjory Stoneman Douglas was also inducted to National Wildlife Federation Hall of Fame and the National Women's Hall of Fame, and she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton in 1993. She also made a brief cameo (as a doll on a Thanksgiving centerpiece) in an episode of The Simpsons:
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