Leadership Is Not A Position

We Now Know From A Princeton Study That Superfund Sites Are Causing Higher Rates Of Birth Defects. We Now Know That There's No Excusing The Lack Of Moral Urgency To Do Something About This Environmental Crisis. We See Flint, Michigan, For Example, And The Attention It's Gotten, But What Most Americans Don't Seem To Realize Is That This Lead Problem Is Not Confined To Just Flint. There Are Over 3,000 Jurisdictions That Have Twice The Lead Levels In People's Blood Than Flint Does. We're Now Seeing More People Being Exposed To The Truth About Environmental Injustice In Our Country.

You Cant Have A Physical Transformation Until You Have A Spiritual Transformation.

I Sit In The Senate, And See What Republicans Are Often Advocating, It's Those Kind Of Tax Loopholes For The Richest Of The Rich Or, Frankly, For Corporations And Giving Incentives For Them To Move Jobs And Opportunity Overseas.

Go Out There And Swear To This World Your Oath, Not With Your Words, But With What You Do. Not With Your Hand Over Your Heart, But With Your Hand Outstretched To A World That Desperately Needs Your Hand, Your Help, Your Insights, Your Creativity, Your Honor, Your Courage. It Needs You.

May We Help More Than We Hurt, May We Seek To Understand More Than Be Understood And May We Love More Than We Judge.