"After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again."

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I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in response to the Iraq War. The first anti-Bush protest in Atlanta was the first protest that I'd ever been to, and I helped organize the school walkout when I was a junior. It was a really solidifying moment.

— Cecily McMillan