"The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced."

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Source : Lois Marie Gibbs, Citizen's Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes (Arlington, Va.) (1995). “Dying from Dioxin: A Citizen's Guide to Reclaiming Our Health and Rebuilding Democracy”, p.1, South End Press

Lois Gibbs

#Government Quotes #Decision Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.”
“I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.”
“I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven't made up my mind whether anyone deserves such treatment, though I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Conventions is the day a person gives up on the human race.”
“Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.”
“Lyrics have got to be simple and catchy. A hook is more important than an overall concept or story.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.”
“Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?”
“The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.”

Source : "Peter Higgs' Big Day". Interview with Jessica Griggs, www.slate.com. July 29, 2012.

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