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National Abortion Rights Action League, or NARAL, is a pro-choice American organization made up of pro-choice women and men across the United States. The organization protects and expands reproductive freedom for women. They lobby Congress, represent pro-choice Americans, work with 20 state affiliates to advance ideas that work towards women’s freedom, and use the political process to elect lawmakers who support their pro-choice values. NARAL “believes that women should have the option to choose abortion,” it is their own personal decision. 

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Margaret Sanger was a feminist and women’s rights activist. She is known for coining the term, “birth control.” In 1910, she started a publication promoting a woman’s right to birth control but laws forced her to flee the country in 1915. This didn’t stop her in pursuing women’s rights to birth control, and in 1916 she opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. It was in 1919, that Sanger published the article, “A Parents’ Problem or Woman’s?” where she wrote, “No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body.” Later in 1921, she established the American Birth Control League, which would lead to today’s Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She died in 1966, fighting her entire life for women’s rights. 

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"Live simply so others may simply live" is a quote attributed to Gandhi.  However, some people have falsely credited the quote to Elizabeth Ann Seton and Mother Theresa. The meaning behind the quote is to live simply so that there are more resources to go around for those who are just trying to live.

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The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor unions in the United States, representing over 3 million members who work in public education. On September 19, 1981, unions such as the NEA took part in Solidarity Day, a march in Washington to protest the budget and tax cuts proposed the Reagan administration.

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Jiminy Cricket, a character from the 1940 film Pinocchio, is the mascot for Disney’s commitment to ‘Environmentality’, which encourages staff and visitors to act in an environmentally responsible manner. First introduced as the mascot in 1990, Jiminy Cricket has appeared on multiple Earth Day buttons. Earth Day is celebrated annually on April 22. This button was given to visitors to Disney’s Magic Kingdom in Florida on Earth Day in 1992.

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Socks was the pet cat of President Bill Clinton’s family during his presidency and became somewhat of a national celebrity in his own right. In order to keep from alienating dog lovers, Clinton adopted a chocolate Labrador retriever named Buddy shortly after moving into the white. Unfortunately, Socks and Buddy did not get along and when Clinton left the White House, Socks went to live with his former secretary. This button is from the 1996 presidential election, when Clinton ran for a second term and was re-elected.

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This is a campaign button from the 1976 presidential election in support of the Prohibition Party’s presidential nominee, Benjamin C. Bubar from Maine.  He was an ordained minister and a lifelong politician who was the party’s nominee for 1980 as well. Bubar was the last Prohibition Party candidate to have had political experience before running for the presidency. The Prohibition Party has run candidates in every presidential election since 1872.

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This button was created during the 1996 presidential campaign, in which President Bill Clinton was running for reelection against Republican candidate Bob Dole. That year, the Democratic Convention was held in Chicago, and the button draws a similarity between the names of then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Dennis Rodman, NBA basketball star who was traded to the Chicago Bulls during the 1995-96 season. Clinton is pictured with Rodman’s hair and pierced ear, and the slogan plays upon the title of Rodman’s autobiography, Bad as I Wanna Be, which was published in 1996, as well.

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“Just Say No” is a slogan that was created by First Lady Nancy Reagan, and was used for an advertising campaign for the U.S. “War on Drugs.” The “Just Say No” campaign began in 1982, and officially lasted until 1989. By 1988, more than 12,000 “Just Say No” clubs had been formed across the U.S. The slogan was used during the 1980s and 1990s as a way to discourage children from engaging in illegal drug use.