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… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
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. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business, — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
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… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
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. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share
Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Some corporations don't want free markets, and they don't want democracy. They want profits. And they use our campaign finance system to loot our commons, to steal from our treasury, and the other shared resources of our community - the air, the water, the public lands, the wildlife, the things that belong to all of us that are held in… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share
Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And the last… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
One out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a grim inventory… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities... — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
GE is the biggest polluter of the Hudson.. years ago they killed all the fish dumping millions of lbs. of pcb's into our waterways.… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
Those guys are doing the Koch Brothers bidding and are against all the evidence of the rational mind, saying global warming does not exit.… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
You show me pollution and I will show you people who are not paying their own way, people who are stealing from the public,… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
