Robert D Bullard famous quotes

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Grassroots groups challenge the "business-as-usual" environmentalism that is generally practiced by the more privileged wildlife-and conservation-oriented groups. The focus of activists of color and their constituents reflects their life experiences of social, economic, and political disenfranchisement.
-- Robert D Bullard

#Color #Focus #Political
There is no level playing field. Any time our society says that a powerful chemical company has the same right as a low income family that's living next door, that playing field is not level, is not fair.
-- Robert D Bullard

#Powerful #Doors #Society
An environmental revolution is taking shape in the United States. This revolution has touched communities of color from New York to California and from Florida to Alaska - anywhere where African Americans, Latinos, Asians, Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans live and comprise a majority of the population. Collectively, these Americans represent the fastest growing segment of the population in the United States. They are also the groups most at risk from environmental problems.
-- Robert D Bullard

#New York #Native American #Alaska
At the heart of the problem is the fact that the United States is a racially divided nation where extreme racial inequalities continue to persist.
-- Robert D Bullard

#Heart #Racism #United States
You can call it institutionalized racism or institutionalized inequality, but what I say is that any system that operates to maintain inequality is a corrupt system and must be addressed.
-- Robert D Bullard

#Racism #Inequality
When you start peeling the onion and uncovering layers and layers of inequity that have been subsidized by government, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.
-- Robert D Bullard

#Government #People #Onions

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.
I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.
But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.
Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.
No matter what happens, you can get through this day. Inhale. Focus on the word, 'relax. Exhale. Say, 'I can do this!' And then do it.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.

Robert D Bullard famous quotes

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