Jerome Foster II Quotes

Jerome Foster II is an American climate change activist, voting rights advocate, and virtual reality developer. Foster is the executive director of OneMillionOfUs; an international youth voting and advocacy organization. Foster is known for delivering passionate speeches advocating for the use of intergovernmental unity and climate justice as a means to help mitigate climate change in accordance to the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming and the Green New Deal Resolution. He is also known for wearing a bright-blue earth shirt that says "Think Globally, Bike Locally" on the front and "One Less Car" on the back made by the company, Specialized Inc. Foster has led three social impact and technology ventures: TAU VR, The Climate Reporter, and OneMillionOfUs.

Foster has helped to organize three of the top ten largest climate marches across the Washington, D.C. area and has spoken at the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights in April 2019 and the United Nations Youth Climate Summit in September 2019. He gained international recognition after being the first consecutive climate striker in Washington DC and being interviewed by Former Vice President Al Gore at the Atlanta Climate Reality Leadership Training in March 2019. Wikipedia

✵ 9. May 2002

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Famous Jerome Foster II Quotes

“My mission is to show that we have the power to create a more just democracy that represents all of us.”

Jerome Foster II

at LCV Annual Gala https://www.lcv.org/article_category/blog/Speech

“One person, one vote is the great equalizer of humanity.”

Jerome Foster II

at LCV Annual Gala https://www.lcv.org/article_category/blog/Speech

“History shows that voting is the sword that cuts through all injustice.”

Jerome Foster II

at LCV Annual Gala https://www.lcv.org/article_category/blog/Speech

“When I interned for the American Hero, the Honorable John Lewis, I learned that this will be a tough fight, yet we must be determined to stand against injustice. Civil Rights are Human Rights and human rights are Environmental Rights… NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT.”

Jerome Foster II

at LCV Annual Gala https://www.lcv.org/article_category/blog/Speech

“I am here on behalf of young people worldwide. For the young girl in Guatemala starving because of drought; for the young boy in Sumatra whose entire rainforest community is set ablaze for the extraction of palm oil; for the mother in Beijing who attended her 3-year-old daughter’s funeral because she breathed in the toxic air of the city. I speak for the millions suffering at the destructive hands of the fossil fuel industry.”

Jerome Foster II

at LCV Annual Gala https://www.lcv.org/article_category/blog/Speech

“I founded OneMillionOfUs to empower, educate, and register one million young people to vote in the 2020 elections and beyond. As a great and honorable president once said, “We are the ones we have been waiting for”.”

Jerome Foster II

We are no longer waiting, we are acting."

at LCV Annual Gala https://www.lcv.org/article_category/blog/Speech

“Civil Rights are Human Rights and human rights are Environmental Rights… NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT.”

Jerome Foster II

FOSTER II: THE NEXT GENERATION LEADING THE WAY https://www.lcv.org/article/jerome-foster-ii-next-generation-leading-way/JEROME authored by League of Conservation Voters.

“It is only in the cracks of division that corruption can seep in and pollution can spew out.”

Jerome Foster II

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/20/youth_climate_lawsuit_juliana_v_united#transcript https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/20/youth_climate_lawsuit_juliana_v_united#transcript DemocracyNow (20 September 2019)