Editing Ralph Nader (section)

== Early life and education==
Ralph Nader was born on February 27, 1934, in [[Winsted, Connecticut]], to [[Rose Nader|Rose]] (née Bouziane) and Nathra Nader, both of whom were [[Antiochian Greek Christians|Antiochian Greek Christian]] immigrants from Mount Lebanon and the [[Beqaa Valley]] in Southeastern [[Lebanon]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Pastor Bassilios Nadar "Nader" Saffi (March 2018)|url=https://antiochianprodsa.blob.core.windows.net/websiteattachments/bio_Basilios%20Nadar%20Saffi%20%20updated.pdf|access-date= December 18, 2022|website=Antiochian Greek Orthodox Church of America|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Nader a Winner This Day&nbsp;– Ralph Nader |url=https://www.questia.com/library/1G1-84181380/nader-a-winner-this-day |work=Washington Times|date=March 18, 2002}}</ref><ref name=Battling_for_Democracy>{{Citation |last=Graham |first=Kevin |title=Ralph Nader: Battling for Democracy |publisher=Windom Publishing Company |location=Denver, Colorado |isbn=0-9700323-0-7 |year=2000 |url=https://archive.org/details/ralphnaderbattli00grah }}</ref><ref name="Nader-Childhood"/> After settling in Connecticut, Nathra Nader worked in a textile mill before opening a bakery and restaurant.<ref name=unreasonableman>{{cite video |people=Mantel, Henriette (Director) |title=An Unreasonable Man |medium=DVD |publisher=[[IFC Films]] |date=2006}}</ref> Ralph Nader occasionally helped at his father's restaurant, as well as worked as a newspaper delivery boy for the local paper, the  Winsted ''Register Citizen''.<ref name="nation11">{{cite news|last1=Green|first1=Mark|title=How Ralph Nader Changed America|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-ralph-nader-changed-america/ |access-date=August 2, 2016|work=[[The Nation]]|date=December 1, 2015}}</ref> Nader graduated from [[The Gilbert School]] in 1951, going on to attend [[Princeton University]]. Though he was offered a scholarship to Princeton, his father forced him to decline it on the grounds that the family was able to pay Nader's tuition and the funds should go to a student who could not afford it.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g88RWOBJz1UC&pg=PA25 | title =Ralph Nader: Man With a Mission |author =Nancy Bowen | publisher = [[Millbrook Press]] | date =April 1, 2002| isbn =978-0-7613-2365-5 }}</ref> Nader graduated ''[[magna cum laude]]'' and [[Phi Beta Kappa]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/social-reformers/ralph-nader |title=Nader, Ralph |date=2005 |encyclopedia=West's Encyclopedia of American Law |via=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=March 15, 2019 }}</ref> with a Bachelor of Arts from the [[Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs]] in 1955 after completing a senior thesis titled "Lebanese Agriculture".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.biography.com/activist/ralph-nader |title=Ralph Nader Biography |work=[[FYI (American TV channel)|Biography]] |date=May 10, 2016 |access-date=October 4, 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Nader|first=Ralph |year=1955 |publisher=Princeton University, Department of Politics |title=Lebanese Agriculture |url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/dsp01hm50tt424 |language=en}}</ref>

After graduating from Princeton, Nader enrolled at [[Harvard Law School]], though he quickly became bored by his courses. While at Harvard, Nader would frequently skip classes to hitchhike across the U.S. where he would engage in field research on Native American issues and migrant worker rights. He earned a [[Bachelor of Laws]] (LL.B.) from Harvard in 1958.<ref name="nation11"/> Nader identified with [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] philosophy in his youth, but gradually shifted away in his early 20s. Although Nader acknowledged that he "didn't like public housing because it disadvantaged landlords unfairly", his viewpoint changed when he "saw the slums and what landlords did".<ref>{{cite web |title=Ralph Nader, "To The Ramparts" |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWxc_kYmPTE&t=3208 | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/OWxc_kYmPTE| archive-date=October 30, 2021|website=Politics and Prose | date=October 2018 |publisher=Tom Warren |access-date=October 4, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> After graduating from Harvard, Nader served in the [[U.S. Army]] as a cook and was posted to [[Fort Dix]].<ref name="nation11"/>