"One of the things that we constantly talk about is no taxation without representation was one of the rallying cries of the American Revolution, and the full phrase was 'taxation without representation is tyranny.'"
"Water is a human right, and so we are going to ensure that every single person has access to clean water."
"So just know that all of your work is so important, and it is this partnership, this kind of level of partnership that is going to be able to get us transformative change for all of us in our communit..."
"It helps elevate the work that we are doing on a national level if you are holding corporate polluters here locally accountable."
"It is so critically important that we elevate the voices of so many residents that are not in this room that are dealing with this on a daily basis, every single day, and now their children."
"It sounds like this is about basically allowing us to have more of a say whether or not to allow a permit to come into our space and where we live."
"All of you play an incredibly essential role in addressing environmental racism in our country and the fight against corporate assault on our families."
"The main theme here is environmental racism, right?"
"We need Federal protection to guarantee a right to affordable water in order to ensure that people have access to this basic human need."
"Most of what we are going to be able to do, not only fighting to restore the Civil Rights Act, to be able to challenge a lot of the injustice that we see in the courts..."
"It always starts with all of you. Please believe that, that movement starts with you that demands it of us."