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Dec. 30, 2016-Jan. 5, 2017
Notable
Quotable
A sam pling o f some o f our
favorite conversations from 2016
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1 Ahe politics of fear is being used to
divide our communities. We need to
remind ourselves of the strengths of
being a country where diverse cultures have
come together. There’s no contradiction
between a nation where we speak a common
language and a nation where many of us
remain proud of our ethnic and cultural
heritage, including our native languages.
There’s no contradiction between a nation
with a shared culture, founded on the idea
of freedom, and a nation whose culture
reflects the melting pot that is America.”
- David Rogers, executive director of ACLU
Oregon
Jan. 22
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“If you have cool images out there of
multidimensional women who have
interesting jobs and interesting lives, and
actually have lines of dialogue with other
women, you show these wonderful
possibilities for people — it just gives hope.
It gives kids all over the world a more
realistic view, more exciting opportunities.”
- Catherine Hardwicke, director, “Twilight”
Feb. 26
Jarvis Kennedy
Photos by:
Gary Cameron/
Reuters (Ilyse Hogue),
Sigrid Estrada
(Susan Faludi), K.
Kendall (Jarvis
Kennedy),
M ark B lin d i/
Reuters (Margaret
Atwood), Alan
Borrud (Bettyjo
Griffiths), Netflix
(Dean Strang), Joseph
Glode (Barbara
Roberts), Nick
Randhawa (Ralph
Nader)
“Roughly 20 percent of our total
greenhouse gas emissions coipe from either
agriculture or livestock production and the
changes in land use, which is often
shorthand for deforestation. Twenty percent
may or may not sound like a lot, but that’s
more than the entirety of the transportation
sector - so cars and airplanes and freight
transportation and boats. That’s more than
the entirety of the building sector, so all of
the electricity and heating that we use in
buildings, and that’s nearly as much as the
entirety of the industrial sector - so
everything that we make.”
- Zach Accuardi, specialist in sustainable
urban development, dietary impacts
on climate change
March 4
“I think a lot of us tell ourselves that it’s
too big for us to affect. That’s true in a
sense - which is why we build movements,
to combine our power. As individuals we
can’t do much; together we can.”
- Bill McKibben, founder of350.org,
on climate change
June 10
“We would always see parents crying all
the time, and they were carrying their kids
up to the hill to bury them. I have those
memories in my head, and even to this day,
when I look outside to the sea, or at the
coast, I have tears every time because I
think about my escape, and all the people
that died.”
- Thuy Huyen, Ms. Oregon 2016, who grew
up in an Indonesian refugee camp after her
parents escaped Vietnam in 1979
June 17
“She’s a disaster with an innocent smile.
A storm ranging in a precious mind. A brain
that had limitless secrets to hide. She was
everything and anything but a naive child.”
- DeAnna, foster youth
July 8
“The fossil fuel industry and the Koch
brothers are putting hundreds of millions of
dollars into the political system to
essentially buy the Legislature. It stands the
vision of our republic on its head. The vision
of the republic is ‘we the republic,’ in
contrast to government by and for the
powerful. But with Citizens United, ‘we the
republic’ becomes ‘we the privileged and
powerful.’”
- Sen. Jeff Merkley
July 29
“Indigenous peoples are a political
powerhouse that states and corporations
can’t conquer, even at the point of a g u n ....
Indigenous peoples are the frontline of the
environmental movement. It is imperative
that we start recognizing this.”
- John Ahni Schertow, chief editor,
Intercontinental Cry
July 29
whether it’s oppressive and destructive.”
- Susan Faludi, author
Sept. 16
“It’s really important for people in
Oregon to talk about how proud they are to
come from a state that really prioritizes
reproductive freedom and reproductive
justice and demand that your elected
representation actually challenge the anti
choice forces that they go up against every
day in Congress, because when we
challenge them, they lose. We don’t lose.”
- Ilyse Hogue, president, NARAL
Pro-Choice America
Sept. 23
Margaret Atwood
Susan Faludi
Hyse Hogue
“It’s all about
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the money,
once you come
down to it. Because
that’s what people
want. Money buys
whatever they want.
But it’s not just an
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Indian thing, it’s a
human race thing. We
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can’t drink oil. We can’t
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throw oil on the field and
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expect to grow something. ■
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-Jarvis Kennedy, Paiute
tribal councilman
Sept. 23
“I have every right to protect
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my body.”
- Patreese Johnson, one of four
women sent to prison after defending
themselves in an attack, the subject
of the film “Out in the Night”
Sept. 30
“Whether it’s Brexit or Make America
Great Trumpism or ISIS or you name it,
hatred of immigrants, there is just all this
crisis around the subject of identity and how
one expresses identity and whether identity
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