Country Quote by Marc Morial

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a…

— Elizabeth Edwards

I think Katrina is one more indication of how inefficient and corrupt this Administration is, and indicates the absolute lack of seriousness that [George…

— Bernie Sanders

What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the…

— Wynton Marsalis

Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar…

— Darell Hammond

Poverty is a horrible, bedeviling force that invades and infects every aspect of our lives and communities - our homes, our pantries, our schools,…

— Wes Moore

Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have…

— Michael Eric Dyson

The stark and tragic images of human suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reminded us yet again that civil rights and equal…

— Edward Kennedy

With Katrina, it's almost like the sequel that doesn't live up to the original. It's certainly a shocking event and a tragedy, but somehow…

— Gilbert Gottfried

We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that.

— David Simon

You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

— Desmond Tutu

“the poorest people in the United States subsidized the contractor bonanza twice: first, when Katrina relief morphed into unregulated corporate handouts, providing neither decent…

— Naomi Klein

“In New Orleans, no matter how much money you had in the bank, you looked on poverty every day.”

— Dan Baum