America Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

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

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

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

— Desmond Tutu

American taxpayers have been generous to Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

— John Kennedy

Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The…

— Marc Morial

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

Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New…

— Mitch Landrieu

“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

A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I…

— AnnaLynne McCord

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

After the destruction of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the shutdown of much of New York City by Sandy in 2012, and…

— Joseph Stiglitz

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything…

— Seneca the Younger