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“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.”
— Majora CarterMajora Carter: Greening the ghetto
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“As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility — which I do.”
— Majora CarterMajora Carter: Greening the ghetto
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“It’s time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that we start building living monuments to hope and possibility.”
— Majora CarterMajora Carter: 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship
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“Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.”
— Majora CarterMajora Carter: Greening the ghetto
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“My big brother Lenny fought in Vietnam, only to be gunned down a few blocks from our home [in the South Bronx].”
— Majora CarterMajora Carter: Greening the ghetto
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“We might have come to [TED] from very, very different stations in life, but believe me, we all share one incredibly powerful thing: we have nothing to lose and everything to gain.”
— Majora CarterMajora Carter: Greening the ghetto
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“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.”
— Majora CarterMajora Carter: 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship
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