"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."

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Source : "Greening the ghetto". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2006.

Majora Carter

#Motivation Quotes #Distance Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God.”
“We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches or tame our ideas. You know, it's only out here that stupid people like us can really think. The weightlessness gets our thoughts and we can sort them. Ideas grow out here like nowhere else - it's the right environment for them. Anyone can get into space, if he wants to hard enough. The ticket is a dream.”
“If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.”

Source : Ivan Klíma, Paul Wilson (2006). “Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light”, p.60, Grove Press
“If there's any way that I can be of service to people who are going through something painful in their lives, even though the witch world is heightened, then that's great.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“When I step on the mat I know there is no other place I'd rather be.”
“When the Fyre inside is kindled and when the Time Is Right, anything is possible.”
“All cultures are capable of democracy and liberalism. Everybody wants to be free.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades.”

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