Elizabeth Yeampierre Quotes

Puerto Rico

Elizabeth Yeampierre is a Puerto Rican attorney and environmental justice leader of African and indigenous ancestry, born and raised in New York City.

Puerto Rico
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Young people come with hope and with a renewed vision of a future that transforms.

Interview with Atmos (2021)

The conventional, dated, old ways of thinking will not be able to address the challenges of climate change.

Interview with Atmos (2021)

It's really important that the movement be intergenerational.

Interview with Atmos (2021)

New York City is like the bastion of capitalism and patriarchy.

Interview with Atmos (2021)

AOC embodies the kind of leadership we dream of: brilliant, courageous, and gifted, with a quick mind and an understanding of our history and the political moment from which she emerged. And most importantly to me, she believes in environmental justice.

AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez edited by Lynda Lopez (2020)

We won't have power if we don't have intergenerational power. That's not just rhetoric. We can solve problems when we're together.

Interview with Atmos (2021)

We're the descendants of enslavement and colonization, we are people who come from people who've always honored Mother Earth. This climate justice work is just an extension of us honoring those traditions.

Interview with Atmos (2021)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elizabeth Yeampierre (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.