we look at which communities are actually at greatest risk from disasters and floods like this, historically, it’s been low-income communities and co… - Robert D. Bullard

the whole idea of rebuilding, needs to be democratized. Those communities, people need to decide what it is that they want and what they can live with.

Students and young people have fueled every social movement in the United States, including the civil rights, environmental, antiwar, women's movements.

we have to have strong community-based organizations on the ground with the capacity to assist and support families and households that can get things right, that can pressure and apply the points of saying, “Well, we need to make sure that just because you don’t have a car, just because you don’t have a big bank account doesn’t mean that you should not be safe, that your community should not come back and that you should not have the same level of protection and the same level of importance as if you were a middle-class white neighborhood.” That is—that’s what we have to ensure.