Lois Gibbs quotes
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“Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience.”
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“The main lesson to be learned from the Love Canal crisis is that in order to protect public health from chemical contamination, there needs to be a massive outcry--a choir of voices--by the American people demanding change.”
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“The citizens of Love Canal provided an example of how a blue-collar community with few resources can win against great odds (a multi-billion-dollar international corporation and an unresponsive government), using the power of the people in our democratic system.”
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“It will take a massive effort to move society from corporate domination, in which industry's rights to pollute and damage health and the environment supersede the public's right to live, work, and play in safety. This is a political fight. The science is already there, showing that people's health is at risk. To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake.”
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“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.”
-- Lois GibbsSource : 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
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“People need to stand up hold hands, talk about alternatives. Alternatives, alternatives, alternatives. And people united will never, ever be defeated.”
-- Lois Gibbs -
“To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake.”
-- Lois Gibbs
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