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“We have got to provide meaningful work at decent wages for every employable citizen. We must guarantee an adequate income for those unable to work. We must build millions of low-income housing units, tear down the slums, and rebuild our cities. We need to build schools, hospitals, mass transit systems. We need to construct new, integrated towns. As President Johnson has said, we need to build a "second America" between now and the year 2000. It is in the context of this national reconstruction that the socioeconomic fate of the Negro will be determined. Will we build into the second America new, more sophisticated forms of segregation and exploitation or will we create a genuine open, integrated, and democratic society? Will we have a more equitable distribution of economic resources and political power, or will we sow the seeds of more misery, unrest, and division? Because of men like Martin Luther King, it is unlikely that the American Negro can ever again return to the old order. But it is up to us, the living, black and white, to realize Dr. King's dream.”

Work Education Democracy Health Economics Income African Americans Blacks Housing Mass Transit

Book:Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

Source: Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

“I support the Surfrider Foundation, which is focused on protecting the oceans and beaches. I also recycle and use mass transit, ride my bike as often as I can, or I walk, which is one of the best parts about living in New York City.”

I Can Use Walks Cities Support New York Ocean Mass Foundation Focused Beach New York City Bike Mass Transit

Author:Raquel Zimmermann

“Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.”

World Space Possibility Moon Safe Lows International Speed Flight Consistent Stations Exploration Connecting Orbit Space Travel Connecting The World Mass Transit

Author:Ben Parr

“we'll have to reclaim the ward 'taxes.' Why has it become a synonym for 'evil'? I understand that no one likes to pay good money for nothing. But fire and police protection aren't nothing. ... Roads, bridges, airports, and mass transit systems aren't nothing. National parks, clean air, and clear water aren't nothing. A safe food supply, functioning schools with well-trained teachers, and well-equipped hospitals aren't vaporous apparitions either.”

“Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine... We’ve got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit.”

People Mines Mass Fossils Automobile Mass Transit

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.”

Knows Looks Mass Look Up Native Dictionary Arizona Mass Transit

Author:Paul Johnson

“From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.”

Real Country States Government Interest Decision Effects Late Mass Court Complexes Locals Interaction Estates Federal Government Undermining Local Government Court Decision Mass Transit

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government's powers were understood to be just as the framers intended: few and explicitly enumerated in our founding document and its amendments. Search the Constitution as long as you like, and you will find no specific authority conveyed for the government to spend money on global-warming research, urban mass transit, food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, or countless other items in the stimulus package and, even without it, in the regular federal budget.”

“Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.”

Way Needs Long Mass Bridges Gaps More Money Highways Long Way Funding Passengers Rail Long Way To Go Mass Transit

Author:Bill Lipinski

“With the increased cost of gasoline, it doesn't appear that we're going to see a slowing of interest in mass transit. I think it's going to continue to grow.”

Thinking Grows Interest Cost Mass Gasoline Slowing Mass Transit

Author:Tom Barrett