Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.

You shouldn't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one.

We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.

To me, charity often is just about giving, because you’re supposed to, or because it’s what you’ve always done — or it’s about giving until it hurts.

Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

If we are going to be part of the solution, we have to engage the problems.

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable

We want to bring enterprise back to blighted urban areas. People there have been told nothing is ever going to change. The policy makers may feel the same way.

Everyone who's born has a mysterious life path to follow. We must live to find that one reason to live

...life is extremely resilient but not infinitely so.

manic depression is the result of the sum of repetitiveness in life and expecting a different result.

You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.

There are enough painful experiences that go along with this trip that it keeps me in reality. It ain't all gems and roses.

Words are easy; lies as simple as parting your lips and breathing.

Vision sometimes comes in a memory.

A local company has more accountability.

Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.