“People who are prayed for get out of the emergency room faster,”
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Marianne Williamson
Marianne Deborah Williamson is an American self-help author, speaker, and political activist. She began her professional career as a spiritual leader of the Church of Today, a Unity Church in Warren, Michigan. Williamson has written several self-help books, including A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles in 1992, which became a New York Times Best Seller. She rose…
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politics · American author and political activist (born 1952) · writer · politician · peace activist · philanthropist · activist · teacher · also Marianne Williamson, Marianne D. Williamson, Marianne Deborah Williamson, Williamson
Born 8 July 1952 · Q3131983
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2026· 2 entries
“Mr. President, if you’re listening,”
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2025· 3 entries
Williamson endorsed frontrunner Ken Martin
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Williamson shared on X that the DNC Ethnic Council informed her that she would be excluded from their DNC candidate forum that day
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Campaign: 2025 Democratic National Committee chairmanship election.
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2024· 14 entries
CNN: Marianne Williamson announces run for DNC chair
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Williamson announced her candidacy in the election of the Democratic National Committee chairperson
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Campaign ended: 2024 presidential election.
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Ended her campaign for the final time
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Publishers Weekly: Marianne Williamson’s Mind of Love
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The Guardian: Marianne Williamson ‘un-suspends’ campaign after Michigan primary
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Forbes: Marianne Williamson Re-Enters Presidential Race After 3rd-Place Michigan Finish
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The Guardian: Marianne Williamson ends campaign to secure Democratic presidential nomination
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New York Post: Marianne Williamson drops out of longshot 2024 Democratic presidential primary race
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CNBC: Marianne Williamson drops long-shot 2024 presidential bid
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CNN: Marianne Williamson suspends long-shot Democratic presidential campaign
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Visiting South Carolina and New Hampshire in early 2023
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Campaign: 2024 presidential election.
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Challenging incumbent President Joe Biden
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2023· 13 entries
New York Post: Marianne Williamson soldiers on during against-the-odds run for presidency
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Claimed: “Looking at “American aid to other countries … the vast majority of it is military aid.”” — rated False by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: ““We sell arms to 60% of the world's autocrats. We are the world's largest arms exporters."” — rated True by PolitiFact.
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The Guardian: Marianne Williamson: ‘You don’t even know what misogyny is until you’ve been a woman running for president’
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A week after her campaign manager, Peter Daou, had announced similar intentions
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The Guardian: Quirky, kooky, a joke … but why is Marianne Williamson so popular with the young?
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The Guardian: Marianne Williamson calls claims she abused staff a ‘distraction technique’
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The Guardian: Candidate Marianne Williamson hit by claims of ‘foaming, spitting rage’
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The Guardian: Marianne Williamson says 2024 bid is not a challenge to Biden but to a system
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The Guardian: Marianne Williamson officially launches long-shot 2024 presidential campaign
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The Guardian: Marianne Williamson to run for president again to ‘help repair America’
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Confirmed that she would launch a run for president in the future
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A dozen former staffers from her 2020 campaign, who remained anonymous due to having signed non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), described working for Williamson as "toxic," "traumatic," and "terrifying"
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2020· 7 entries
The Guardian: 'Politics of love': the end of Marianne Williamson's bizarre and mesmerizing campaign
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The Guardian: Marianne Williamson ends 2020 presidential campaign
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Williamson announced the end of her campaign and pledged to support the Democratic nominee
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“Virtual Iowa Caucus Captains”
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Eventually dropping out and endorsing Bernie Sanders
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And 2024, Williamson's presidential campaign published detailed policy proposals to protect animal welfare
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Campaign: 2020 presidential election.
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2019· 6 entries
Claimed: “Childhood chronic illnesses have risen from “something like 12%” before 1986's vaccine protection law to "54% now."” — rated Misleading by FactCheck.org.
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Claimed: “"We are the only advanced industrialized nation that bases our educational funding on property taxes."” — rated Half True by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: “"So many Americans have unnecessary chronic illnesses — so many more compared to other countries."” — rated U.S. does fare worse by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: “Says Jimmy Carter was the last “U.S. president to say flat out those (Israeli) settlements are illegal.”” — rated Half True by PolitiFact.
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Williamson officially launched her presidential campaign before an audience of 2,000 people in Los Angeles
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Williamson stated that she supports a prohibition on the construction and expansion of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), also known as factory farms
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2018· 2 entries
Williamson announced the formation of a presidential exploratory committee
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Gave a keynote address to several hundred Muslim and Jewish women at the Sisterhood of Salaam-Shalom conference in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, eight days after 11 Jewish people were murdered the Pittsburgh synagogue sh
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2015· 2 entries
Williamson had said "the facts are in about measles," but also advocated "a skepticism, which is actually healthy, on this issue of vaccinations
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“the facts are in about measles,”
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2014· 2 entries
Williamson ran as an Independent for California's 33rd congressional district in the U
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Campaign: 2014 U.S. House of Representatives election.
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2013· 1 entry
Williamson reported having assets estimated to be valued between $1 million and $5 million (not including personal residences)
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2012· 1 entry
Yale University's Women's Campaign School – an independent, nonpartisan, issue-neutral political campaign training and leadership program hosted at Yale Law School – partnered with the series, which focused on how to bet
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2010· 1 entry
Williamson launched "Sister Giant", a series of conferences to "start a new conversation about transformational politics" and encourage more women to run for office:
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2006· 1 entry
A Newsweek poll named her one of the 50 most influential baby boomers
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2004· 1 entry
The GSA's name was changed to The Peace Alliance and was given a new mandate focused on grassroots education and advocacy organization
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1998· 1 entry
Williamson co-founded the non-profit Global Renaissance Alliance (GSA) with Conversations with God author Neale Donald Walsch
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1994· 1 entry
“Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela”
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1992· 3 entries
“We don't believe that because you pray with someone they're not supposed to go to the doctor.”
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“We need to talk about more than just the health care plan. We need to realize we have a sickness care rather than a health care system. We need to be the party talking about why so many of our chemical policies and our food policies and our agricultural policies and our environment policies and even our economic policies are leading to sick people to begin with.”
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Which became a New York Times Best Seller
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1989· 2 entries
With the Centers' success, Williamson launched Project Angel Food (a program operated by The Centers for Living) to support HIV/AIDS patients
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Having received another advance of $50,000 (~$109,762 in 2024) from Geffen, Williamson opened a second Center for Living, this time in New York City; this location was hampered by a conflict between staff and the board r
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1987· 2 entries
Inspired by a friend's struggle with breast cancer, Williamson launched the Center for Living, after a $50,000 donation from David Geffen
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Project Angel Food in 1989, and the Peace Alliance in 1998
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1983· 1 entry
Williamson had what she has called a "flash" to close the coffee shop and move to Los Angeles
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1979· 1 entry
Williamson returned to Houston, where she ran a metaphysical bookstore coffee shop, sang Gershwin standards in a nightclub, got married and divorced "almost immediately", and underwent a "spiritual surrender"
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1973· 1 entry
Williamson dropped out of college and lived "a nomadic existence" during what she calls "her wasted decade"
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1965· 1 entry
After Williamson came home from school in the seventh grade, she recounted to her parents that her teacher supported the Vietnam War
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1952· 1 entry
Born 1952-07-08.
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