Majora Carter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You shouldn't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one,
-- Majora Carter

#Neighborhood
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.
-- Majora Carter

#Healthy #World #Want
To me, charity often is just about giving, because youâ€™re supposed to, or because itâ€™s what youâ€™ve always done â€” or itâ€™s about giving until it hurts.
-- Majora Carter

#Hurt #Giving #Done
Jane Jacobs work wouldnt have been complete if it hadn't inspired others to carry it on, and evolve Jane's groundbreaking accomplishments so that the essential kernel of thought remains relevant for future generations. The essayists in What We See have built on those essential footholds that people who have never heard of Jane Jacobs will benefit from for decades.
-- Majora Carter

#People #Accomplishment #Inspired
If we are going to be part of the solution, we have to engage the problems.
-- Majora Carter

#Problem #Solutions
Poor people of all colors are getting poorer and our communities are getting more toxic. There is a misconception that to grow our economy we will have to do business as usual, because cleaning up the environment, mitigating climate change is just too costly. Well, I say the business of poverty is just too expensive a bill for humanity to pay any longer.
-- Majora Carter

#Color #People #Community
Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable
-- Majora Carter

#Destruction #Bronx #Inevitable
Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.
-- Majora Carter

#Justice #Environmental #Development
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 Carter

#Motivation #Inspiration #Shopping
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 Carter

#Motivation #Distance #Inspiration
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 Carter

#Motivation #Inspiration #Race
Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.
-- Majora Carter

#Mean #Justice #Community

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