“Earth Day gathered up those strands, and dozens more, and knitted them together in the public consciousness as "environmental" issues. The nation was pretty startled when 20 million people hit the streets. Congress, which had adjourned for the day to go back to its districts, was blown away.” PeopleEarthTogetherNationsConsciousnessMillionsIssuesStreetsEnvironmentalCongressDozenEarth DayStrandsBlown AwayEnvironmental Issues Author:Denis Hayes
“If I do a picture, I want the audience to be the people I was just packed against on the subway or on the street, walking on Fourteenth Street. I don't want it to be some narrow public that I myself feel alienated from.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsAudienceStreetsWalkingSubway Author:Eric Drooker
“If you make a street poster and literally paste it on the street in a city like New York, where it's such a mixed population and so densely populated, and it stays up for a full week and doesn't get covered up by something else or pulled down, you will have fifty thousand people who will have seen it. It will be the poorest of the poor - some homeless man who lives on the street will see it and probably appreciate it, or some businessman or landlord will see it. Everyone will see it. And whether or not they even realize that they saw it, on some level it's affecting their consciousness.” PeopleIfsMenRealizingPoorLevelsCitiesConsciousnessSawsWeekStreetsNew YorkThousandAppreciatePopulationFiftyCoveredHomelessBusinessmanPoorestPostersLandlordCovered Up Author:Eric Drooker
“It's something that exists on a daily basis on practically every street in India. You have people who are Hindus, Muslims, Christians - not just Catholics, but Protestants, you name it, all kinds of Christians - a hundred other religions, living side by side. And the kind of personal religion that people end up practicing is a bizarre concoction of ritual drawn from each other. So everybody ends up celebrating everyone else's festivals.” PeopleKindEndsChristianNamesSidesStreetsHundredIndiaBasesCatholicAll KindsCelebrateRitualBizarreFestivalsProtestants Author:Anita Rau Badami
“Especially in urban areas, nobody cares so much [about castes], because you are forced to live in the same buildings. There is so, so little space. You can't be thinking about whether you are living in a street that has only Brahmins, or in a building that has been touched only by Muslims or Christians. You just live there, because that's the only place that you can find. So such distinctions just crumble away. There are people who maintain them, at all costs. But for the most part, it doesn't matter.” PeopleThinkingLittlesHas BeensMatterCareChristianSpaceStreetsBuildingCostAreasDistinctionTouchedUrbanJust LiveCastesNobody CaresUrban AreasBrahmins Author:Anita Rau Badami
“In a family, you take on each other's problems and joys differently, and more intensely. The amplitude - and the undulation of the family - is different from the people you just generally bump into on the street, because you're chained together. And what happens if you break that chain? In almost every family that I know, someone has escaped, set themselves free, tried to run away - whatever what you want to call it. And often, they are made more conspicuous by their absence.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantMadeDifferentProblemHappensRunningTogetherJoyBreakStreetsWhat You WantAbsenceChainsRunning AwayBumpsChained Author:Mary Kay Zuravleff
“I tried the line out on some people on the street, like, "What do you think of this: 'the art of family life is to not take it personally'?" And they would laugh. But you know, everybody's got something going on in their families, and then once you have kids, that of course exponentially rises.” PeopleThinkingKnowsArtKidsLife IsCoursesLinesLaughingStreetsFamily Life Author:Mary Kay Zuravleff
“I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.” PeopleYearsShowsFoundNiceStreetsFrontsTelevisionSurpriseBritishLondonBritainPublishingTelevision ShowsDenmarkBritish Television Author:Gordon Lightfoot
“People would stop me in the street - my demographic tends to be the elderly Jewish women from Miami; I think they tend to fancy me as someone that would've been good with their daughter or something - and a lot of them will do the wrist-slapping thing. "Oh, you're a terrible man! Just terrible!" And I'm, like, "Well, it's just a show. I'm just playing a character."” PeopleThinkingMenWellsCharacterShowsStreetsTerribleDaughterFancyElderlyWristsMiamiDemographicsSlapping Author:Peter Jacobson
“There is just something about the common being. My education pretty much came from the streets, just connecting with people, different cultures. I gained the wealth just engaging at that level. I'm still like that. I continue to document everyday people versus the stars.” PeopleStillsDifferentCultureStarsWealthLevelsCommonStreetsEverydayDocumentsEngagingVersusConnectingDifferent Cultures Author:Jamel Shabazz
“For me, the stars are the invisible people on the street that people don't really get a chance to know.” PeopleKnowsStarsChanceStreetsInvisible Author:Jamel Shabazz
“ItÂ’s very easy to capture pictures of jubilant people in the street after the nuclear bomb. But there were no pictures of morose people sitting in their kitchens and living rooms.” PeopleEasyRoomsStreetsSittingNuclearKitchenBombsCaptureLiving RoomNuclear BombMorose Author:Amartya Sen
“I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or other forms of borrowed stories. When I stumbled across the Missed Connections listings, I knew immediately I'd found it.” PeopleStoriesFormFoundStreetsConnectionsListsShoppingPortraitsDiariesBorrowedDiscardedEbayMissed Connections Author:Sophie Blackall
“My mom always said to us, "You cannot judge anybody because of the color of skin." There were a lot of African immigrants in Italy at the time, and people would not even say hi in the street. And my mom, she would invite these people to the house. This is what I got from my mom: to not judge people because of their sexuality, their skin color, their religion, nothing.” PeopleSaidHouseStreetsColorJudgingMomSkinsMy MomSexualityImmigrantsInvitesSkin Color Author:Riccardo Tisci
“What most interests me is human connection, whether it's on the street, in community, through music, storytelling, and shared experience. People tell me to be a rock cellist, make money, and give up on the activism so I can make more money.” PeopleGivingHumansI CanInterestCommunityStreetsRocksGiving UpConnectionsActivismStorytellingMaking MoneyMore MoneyHuman ConnectionShared ExperiencesCellists Author:Ben Sollee
“When we cut off access to certain parts of our cities to people on bikes or in wheelchairs, we're not only doing economic damage, we're also doing culture damage. New York is the culture capital of the world because people are running into each other on the street all the time. They are forced to engage in creativity and problem-solving.” PeopleWorldProblemRunningCertainCultureCitiesCreativityCuttingEconomicStreetsNew YorkAccessDamageProblem SolvingBikeWheelchairs Author:Ben Sollee
“We could have saved Wall Street without putting our future in jeopardy. I predicted that there would be all-around consequences - in the long run as well as in the short run. People are now saying we can't afford health care reform because we spent all the money on the banks. So, in effect, we're saying that it's better that we give rich bankers a couple of trillion than giving ordinary Americans access to health care.” PeopleGivingWellsLongWould BeCareRunningRichStreetsEffectsWallCoupleOrdinaryConsequenceAccessSavedReformHealth CareOur FutureLong RunsBankersJeopardyHealth Care Reform Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“There is a huge fan base, they're very knowledgeable and very loyal. I was astonished - before I started working on the series I didn't know anything about Game of Thrones. I hadn't heard of the books. When it started going out, people were coming up to me in the street saying [fake cockney accent] "oh, Game of Thrones, f------ wonderful.” PeopleKnowsBookGamesWonderfulHeardFansStreetsHugeSeriesLoyalGoing OutThronesKnowledgeable Author:Charles Dance
“Teenagers expressing this on a daily basis in the middle of the streets - you can't help but believe we are in the mind state of taking our losses and changing people's perceptions of us and our community. We are strong. Our families are tired of being hurt.” PeopleMindBelieveStatesHelpingStrongCommunityHurtLossStreetsMiddlePerceptionBasesTiredTeenagerOur FamilyOur CommunityBeing Hurt Author:Kendrick Lamar
“I live in Brooklyn, New York. It is a melting pot of cultures and people. I walk down the street, and there is art on the buildings and people congregating who have been neighbors for years and events and music and freedom.” PeopleYearsHas BeensArtCultureWalksStreetsEventsNew YorkBuildingNeighborPotMeltingBrooklynMelting PotBrooklyn New York Author:Erin Willett
“I do believe that we should substantially lower student debt in this country, which is crushing millions of people. We pay for it, in my view, by a tax on Wall Street speculation. The middle class bailed out Wall Street in their time of need. Now, it is Wall Street's time to help the middle class.” PeopleNeedsShouldBelieveCountryHelpingViewsPayClassMillionsStreetsMiddleStudentsWallTaxesDebtCrushMiddle ClassSpeculationTime Of Need Author:Bernie Sanders
“Let's talk about why, in the 1990s, Wall Street got deregulated. Did it have anything to do with the fact that Wall Street provided - spent billions of dollars on lobbying and campaign contributions? Well, some people might think, yeah, that had some influence.” PeopleThinkingWellsFactsMightInfluenceStreetsWallYeahDollarsBillionsCampaignsContributionLobbyingCampaign Contributions Author:Bernie Sanders
“There is a reason why these people [from Wall Street] are putting huge amounts of money into our political system. And in my view, it is undermining American democracy and it is allowing Congress to represent wealthy campaign contributors and not the working families of this country.” PeopleCountryReasonPoliticalViewsDemocracyStreetsHugeWallAmountCongressCampaignsReason WhyWealthyAllowingPolitical SystemsUnderminingContributorsAmerican Democracy Author:Bernie Sanders
“What I want people to know is I went to Wall Street before the crash. I was the one saying you're going to wreck the economy because of these shenanigans with mortgages. I called to end the carried interest loophole that hedge fund managers enjoy. I proposed changes in CEO compensation.” PeopleKnowsWantEndsEnjoyInterestEconomyStreetsWallManagersFundCrashCeoCompensationWrecksMortgageLoopholesHedge FundShenanigans Author:Hillary Clinton
“I called for a consumer protection financial bureau before it was created. And I think the best evidence that the Wall Street people at least know where I stand and where I have always stood is because they are trying to beat me in this primary.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingStreetsWallBeatsEvidenceFinancialProtectionPrimariesConsumersConsumer Protection Author:Hillary Clinton
“I want to say something, and it may sound harsh, not to you, but to the American people. In a sense, in my view, the business model of Wall Street is fraud. It's fraud. I believe that corruption is rampant, and the fact that major bank after major bank has reached multi billion dollar settlements with the United States government when we have a weak regulator system tells me that not only did we have to bail them out once, if we don't start breaking them up, we're going to have to bail them out again, and I do not want to see that happen.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveMayStatesFactsGovernmentHappensI BelieveSoundUnitedViewsUnited StatesStreetsWallMajorsModelsWeakDollarsCorruptionBillionsFraudHarshSettlementState GovernmentBusiness ModelsBailUnited States GovernmentRegulators Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think it's a broader target list than just Wall Street, and I believe that we have to be very focused on how we try to take back the power and increase the empowerment of the American people. And, I think I have that kind of experience, maybe because they've beat me up for so many years, and I know exactly how to handle them because I've been in the arena with them time and time again.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingYearsBelieveKindI BelieveStreetsWallBeatsEmpowermentIncreaseFocusedListsHandleTargetArena Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think we are making progress, but we have long way to go. People also have got to understand the agenda that we are fighting for. This is a senator who has taken on every powerful special interest, whether it's Wall Street, whether it's drug companies who are ripping off the American people, the military industrial complex.” PeopleThinkingWayLongFightingInterestPowerfulCompanyTakenProgressStreetsSpecialMilitaryWallDrugComplexesAgendasSenatorsLong WayVery PowerfulSpecial InterestsMilitary Industrial ComplexLong Way To GoDrug Companies Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think what the secretary Hillary Clinton has recognized is the American people are extremely angry about the power of Wall Street, the greed, the illegal behavior of Wall Street.” PeopleThinkingStreetsWallBehaviorAngryClintonGreedIllegalSecretary Author:Bernie Sanders
“I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects. So Peter's known that I've been heading towards directing for a long time. But I always thought my first outing would be a couple of people and a digital camera in the back streets of London somewhere!” PeopleFirstsLongWould BeFilmKnownLordStreetsCoupleProjectsLong TimeCamerasLondonRingsDigitalPeterHeadingsShort FilmsVideogameDigital Cameras Author:Andy Serkis
“I was a small business owner, father, and husband just living out in the suburbs. I kind of had a boring life until Post Secret came and turned that upside down. I printed up 3000 self-addressed postcards and handed them out to people on the street, inviting them to write down a secret on that postcard anonymously and mail it to me. I got a lot of surprises.” PeopleWritingKindSelfFatherSecretStreetsHusbandSurpriseBoringPostsOwnersMailSmall BusinessPrintedUpside DownSuburbsInvitingBusiness OwnersPostcardsSmall Business OwnersBoring Life Author:Frank Warren
“When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.” PeopleThinkingReadingTalkingStudyRiskStreetsKeysKingsHappeningsBusGuestsNonviolenceSpeakersOverwhelmedTaking Risks Author:Joan Baez
“There are good guys, and there are congressional people who are good guys, and I certainly vote in those elections. You know, my fondest dream would be if Obama, when he got out of office, decided he was going to go back and organize on the streets. He'd be the only person I could imagine who could really create a movement similar to what King did, and God knows we need that now.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsPersonsDreamWould BeGuyImagineStreetsMovementKingsOfficeDecidedVoteElectionOrganizeGod KnowsGood Guy Author:Joan Baez
“I like to tell the streets what the political climate is, and I like to tell any politicians that's listening what the streets think. And sometimes people get nicked up and bruised up, but I usually have a lot of good medicine for that.” PeopleThinkingSometimesPoliticalStreetsListeningPoliticianMedicineClimateBruised Author:Ice Cube
“Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.” PeopleIfsWritingBookOpinionWrittenStreetsCloudsSignificantSan FranciscoDuncan Author:Stephen Vincent Benet
“I believe that the American people ought to be part of the conversation about what's happening in our economy, and what's happening in Washington and what's happening on Wall Street.” PeopleBelieveI BelieveEconomyStreetsWallOughtConversationHappenings Author:Alison Stewart
“I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge. There's always a new street I can go to, or a billion new people who I haven't met that I could write about. New York is very humbling.” PeopleFeelsWritingI CanStreetsHavensNew YorkHugeMetsInspiredBillionsHumbling Author:Frankie Cosmos