"We are not only deciding what kind of a world we will have in this election," Stein said in accepting the party's nomination at the University of Houston. "We are deciding whether we will have a world or not going into the future. The day of reckoning is coming closer...We cannot wait. We have to act now, if we want to stop that sea level rise from happening in 2050."

"The lesser evil is a losing strategy because people stop coming out to vote," she said. "Hillary Clinton is the problem. She is not the solution to Donald trump. We are the solution. We are the ones we've been waiting for."

She quoted Dr. Martin Luther King: "The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.""I know that arc is bending in us and through us right now. We are the actors in something that is much bigger than us, as we struggle for peace, community and healing together. Hunter Atkins Houston Chronicle