“Quite often when you help poor people, they don't think about the environment. They think about survival.” PeopleThinkingHelpingPoorEnvironmentSurvivalPoor PeopleHelp The PoorHelp Poor People Author:Wangari Maathai
“I think it's important to encourage young people to tell their own stories and to speak openly about their own experiences with the criminal justice system and the experiences of their family. We need to ensure that the classroom environment is a supportive one so that the shame and stigma can be dispelled.” PeopleThinkingNeedsImportantStoriesYoungSpeakJusticeEnvironmentShameCriminalsClassroomSupportiveStigmaJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice System Author:Michelle Alexander
“If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh in on that subject, you're going to end up with a much more regressive public-policy environment than if you approach it in a quieter way. It's not because the public is stupid, it's just that people with only a cursory interest in something are going to have a knee-jerk reaction to it. That's impossible to explain in a cable-news media... it doesn't make sense.” PeopleIfsWayEndsInterestIssuesEnvironmentImpossibleConditionsSubjectsMediaStupidPolicyApproachNewsReactionsMake SenseKneesPrisonerInvitesMainstreamCablesJerkPublic PolicyMainstream MediaNews MediaCable NewsKnee Jerk Reactions Author:Rachel Maddow
“The whole privatisation of health and education, of natural resources and essential infrastructure - all of this is so twisted and so antithetical to anything that would place the interests of human beings or the environment at the center of what ought to be a government concern - should stop. The amassing of unfettered wealth of individuals and corporations should stop. The inheritance of rich people's wealth by their children should stop. The expropriators should have their wealth expropriated and redistributed.” PeopleShouldHumansChildrenWholeGovernmentIndividualInterestNaturalWealthHuman BeingsRichEnvironmentOughtEssentialsResourcesConcernShould HaveCorporationsInfrastructureInheritanceTwistedRich PeopleNatural ResourcesHealth And Education Author:Arundhati Roy
“We must pay close attention to those with another imagination: an imagination outside of capitalism, as well as communism. We will soon have to admit that those people, like the millions of indigenous people fighting to prevent the takeover of their lands and the destruction of their environment - the people who still know the secrets of sustainable living - are not relics of the past, but the guides to our future.” PeopleKnowsWellsStillsPastFightingImaginationPaySecretAttentionMillionsEnvironmentLandCapitalismDestructionGuidesCommunismOur FutureIndigenousRelicsIndigenous PeopleSustainable LivingTakeovers Author:Arundhati Roy
“It's very hard to feel the difficulties that the military goes through. It's very hard to feel the difficulties of military families, unless you're in that environment. And sometimes you have to force yourself to try and put yourself in other people's sort of shoes and environment to get the sense of that.” PeopleFeelsTryingSometimesHardForceEnvironmentMilitaryDifficultyShoesMilitary Family Author:Jon Stewart
“Chicago PD has a rule that if you work in Chicago you have to live in Chicago. Some areas don't have that rule.So oftentimes you get people from different environments that get thrown into environments with people that they never spent time with before in they life. On a daily basis or in their personal life. The only access they had to these type of people was through the media.” PeopleIfsDifferentEnvironmentMediaTypeAreasBasesAccessThrownChicagoPersonal LifeDifferent Environments Author:Michael B. Jordan
“Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and you have a lot of people in the world pretty unhappy with things as they are. Modern communications make all of this known to people far and wide, and we see the fundamental unfairness of it all.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldFeelsLittlesCountryKnownRichEnvironmentModernCommunicationOffersFundamentalsAddFolksSatisfactionWideUnhappyBeing TrueEtcPlusDestroyingConsumptionStarvationUnfairnessRich CountriesDestroying The EnvironmentModern Communication Author:Michael Yates
“It makes sense in that environment that you would hold on in the U.S. government to the people who know their way around this particular block.” PeopleKnowsWayGovernmentEnvironmentParticularBlockMake Sense Author:Rachel Maddow
“It's just in Washington we're talking about equal rights for gay people, civil liberty to smoke marijuana, taking care of the environment, and it's all just decency and common sense and patriotism. And in other parts of the country that would be, like, inconceivable.” PeopleCountryWould BeCareCommonTalkingLibertyEnvironmentRightsGayEqualCommon SenseSmokeMarijuanaDecencyEqual RightsCivil LibertiesGay People Author:Rick Steves
“To make a decision you need to be in a perfect environment: you have to be motivated and surrounded by the right people.” PeopleNeedsDecisionPerfectEnvironmentMotivated Author:Niki Lauda