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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954) is an American environmental attorney, author, and activist. Kennedy serves as president of the board of Waterkeeper Alliance, a non-profit environmental group that he helped found in 1999. He is the chairman of World Mercury Project (WMP), an advocacy group that seeks to reduce and eliminate mercury exposure from industry and pharmaceuticals such as vaccines.

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Most Americans don't know about environmental problems, because we have in our country a negligent and indolent press. The biggest lie that the right wing holds in our country is that there is such a thing as a liberal media. Americans are getting their news from the right-wing media.

Country, Environmental, Indolent, Lie, Lying, Media

The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue. . . . Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood.

America, Environment, Fundamental, Issues, Rights, Toxic Waste

I think we as Americans know there's a much better alternative than the 17th century practice of burning rocks to power our economy.

Alternative, Know, Practice, Rocks, Think, Thinking

We know more about Tom [Cruise] and Katie [Holmes] than we do about global warming. We're the most entertained, least informed people in the world.

People, World, Global Warming, Katie

Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in northwestern Arkansas with so much fecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways.

Animal, Factories, Hormones, Swimming, Water, Years

Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and its empowered large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United State Congress elected -- the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party.

Country, Kinds, Party, Source, United, War

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

Commons, Firsts, Gain, Gains, Government, Tyranny

Resurrecting American democracy is vital to averting climate catastrophe. We must first repeal the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which has flooded elections with billions of oily petrodollars from carbon tycoons.

Democracy, Firsts, Climate, Flooded, American, Vital

American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world.

Democracy, World, Paradigm, American, Rest

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

Air, Huggers, Political, Thinking, Toadies, Water

Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is the infrastructure of our communities. . . If you're saying the values that drive the environmental movement are uncool and antithetical to America, then I would argue just the opposite. If you think being patriotic is not cool, I'd say that's not true either. I'd say the most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

America, Drive, Infrastructure, Opposite, Patriotic, Thinking

There are two reforms that we need to restore our democracy. The first is campaign finance. We need to get the corporate money out of the election process. And second, we need to resolve the dysfunction in the environment. Looters are running agencies that are supposed to be protecting us from pollution.

Agency, Campaign, Dysfunction, Process, Resolve, Running

These are facts that would make every American upset. Our birthright is being stolen, the legacy of our country is at stake, and the values of our nation are in peril. The future whispers, and the present shouts.

Country, Facts, Legacy, Stolen, Upset

In a true free market economy, you can't make yourself rich without enriching your community.

Community, Rich, Economy, True, Free

The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.

Democracy, Function, Informing, Public, Way

Speaking of prostitutes, big oil's top call girl Sen Inhofe wants to kill fuel economy backed by automakers, small biz, enviros, & consumers.

Girl, Oil, Fuel Economy, Economy, Inhofe, Top

The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America's rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U. S. citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty.

America, Animal, Citizens, Farm, Miles, Rivers

While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

Business, Communism, Control, Fascism, Government

Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government. . . They have driven the American economy since its founding, and the prosperity of our country is largely dependent on the free operation of corporations. But some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits.

Country, Driven, Government, Largely, Running, Thing

You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from the public, people who are getting the public to pay their costs of production. All environmental pollution is a subsidy.

Cost, Environmental, Paying, People, Public, Way

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