Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Quotes

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

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Government, Gains, Firsts

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

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  Government, Communism, Fascism

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• It is more important to be of service than successful.

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  Success, Successful, Important

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

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  Democracy, Way, Function

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• The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations.

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  America, Corporations, Covering

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• The Republicans are 90% corrupt, and the Democrats are 50% corrupt.

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  Republican, Democrat

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• We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country.

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  Country, Powerful, Election Process

  Interview with David Kupfer, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 26, 2006.

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• 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.

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  Running, Country, Government

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• Sometimes it's more important to change politicians than light bulbs.

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  Light, Important, Sometimes

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• The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

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  Patriotic, Trying, Care

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• We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

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  Nature, Community, Sake

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• If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass extinctions, wars, and collapsing civilizations.

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  War, Cutting, Fire

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Air, Water

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• 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.

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  Country, Upset, Legacy

  Interview with David Kupfer, November 2006.

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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.

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  Country, Lying, Wings

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• The next time you see John Stossel or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, these flat-Earthers, these corporate toadies, lying to you, lying to the American public, and telling you that global warming doesn't exist. You send an e-mail to their advertisers and tell them that you're not going to buy their products anymore.

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  Lying, Email, Toady

  "Live Earth Disappoints With Everything But Shrill Rhetoric". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. July 9, 2007.

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• 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.

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  Country, War, Party

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• One out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a grim inventory of diseases, including autism, blindness, mental retardation and heart, liver and kidney disease.

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  Children, Heart, Autism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and force the public to pay his production costs.

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  Cat, Discipline, Political

  "Transcript for the Piece Audio version of Episode 2". "Climate One" with Greg Dalton, www.prx.org.

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• American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world, and it no longer is. Citizens cannot be guaranteed that they can walk into a voting booth with any assurance that their vote will be counted.

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  Voting, Democracy, Citizens

  Interview with David Kupfer for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. November 2006.

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• 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.

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  Patriotic, Thinking, Opposites

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• I was interested in the environment from when I was a little kid. I spent most of my time hunting and fishing and kayaking.

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  Kids, Hunting, Kayaking

  "The Last Mountain". Interview with Nobuhiro Hosoki, hosokinema.com. June 3, 2011.

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• We do not have free market capitalism in America; we have crony capitalism. There is a huge difference between free market capitalism that democratizes a country and makes us more efficient and prosperous and corporate crony capitalism.

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  Country, Differences, America

  "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. interviewed by David Kupfer". The Progressive magazine, November 2006.

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• Like other Americans, I've reconciled myself to the idea that an animal's life has been sacrificed to bring me a meal of pork or chicken. However, industrial meat production - which subjects animals to a life of torture - has escalated the karmic costs beyond reconciliation.

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  Animal, Ideas, Meat

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• 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.

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  Rights, Toxic Waste, America

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