Majora Carter Quotes & Sayings

Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other. — Majora Carter

Just because you have a piece of trash and you throw it away and it gets hauled away, it doesn't mean that it's not affecting someone else. — Majora Carter

My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world. — Majora Carter

Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities. — Majora Carter

It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that we start building living monuments to hope and possibility. — Majora Carter

What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life. — Majora Carter

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects. — Majora Carter

To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts. — Majora Carter

You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing. — Majora Carter

We want to bring enterprise back to blighted urban areas. People there have been told nothing is ever going to change. The policy makers may feel the same way. — Majora Carter

We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that. — Majora Carter

If we are going to be part of the solution, we have to engage the problems. — Majora Carter

Poor people of all colors are getting poorer and our communities are getting more toxic. There is a misconception that to grow our economy we will have to do business as usual, because cleaning up the environment, mitigating climate change is just too costly. Well, I say the business of poverty is just too expensive a bill for humanity to pay any longer. — Majora Carter

Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation. — Majora Carter

I am a local economic revitalization strategist. But I am also a TV/radio host, and a small business owner. I find ways to use money more efficiently to realize positive goals for everyone. — Majora Carter

You shouldn't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one, — Majora Carter

Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable — Majora Carter

One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect. — Majora Carter

As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do. — Majora Carter

Jane Jacobs work wouldnt have been complete if it hadn't inspired others to carry it on, and evolve Jane's groundbreaking accomplishments so that the essential kernel of thought remains relevant for future generations. The essayists in What We See have built on those essential footholds that people who have never heard of Jane Jacobs will benefit from for decades. — Majora Carter