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RFK Jr: “Every child in this country has a right to go down to their local lake or river, throw in a plug, pull out a fish, and bring it home and feed it to their family with the security that they’re not poisoning somebody.” RFK Jr. says our waterways belong to the PEOPLE, not chemical companies, fertilizer companies, or Big Ag. “Waterways belong to all of us.” “They don’t belong to the chemical companies, the fertilizer companies, Big Ag, or anybody else.” “They’re part of what they call the public trust. And this is ancient law. It goes back 1,000 years to the Code of Justinian.” “The air, the water, the wildlife, the wandering animals, the fisheries, the aquifers, they belong to all the people.” “Everybody has a right to use them. Nobody can use them in a way that will diminish or injure their use and enjoyment by others.” “When somebody pollutes waterways, they are stealing something that belongs to our public.” “Those rights are being taken.”

RFK Jr. says all the major religions of the world have something in common when it comes to their central revelations. Nature and farmland. “If you look at all the major religions in the world, the central revelation always happens in the wilderness or the farmland.” “Buddha had to go out into the wilderness and sit under The Bodh Gaya Tree to experience nirvana for the first time.” “Muhammad had to go to the mountain of Mount Hira on a camping trip… To go wrestle the angel Gabriel in the middle of the night in a cave, and have the first suras of the Quran squeezed out of him.” “Moses had to go to the wilderness of Mount Sinai to get the commandments.” “Jesus had to spend 40 days in the wilderness in order to discover his divinity for the first time.” “And almost all of Christ’s parables, come from the farm.” “Because there was this recognition from the beginning of our republic that virtue lies in the countryside.” “And if we sever that tie that we all have to the countryside, we’re gonna take away something vital about who we are, our values, and our character.” “These landscapes that we are now degrading connect us to everything that’s important.” “They enrich us, they enrich our culture, they enrich our palate, and they enrich us spiritually as well.” “God talks to human beings through many vectors.” “But nowhere with the kind of precision and texture and grace and joy as through creation.” “And when we destroy creation, we destroy part of our capacity to sense the divine, to understand who God is and what our own potential is as human beings.”

RFK Jr. says the Democratic Party used to produce extraordinary leaders. But he says that Democratic Party is long gone. “I was raised in the Democratic Party and we used to produce extraordinary leaders like this one.” “Articulate, vibrant, energetic, thoughtful, and with a very clear vision for our country.” “And the physical and moral courage with a long track record of demonstrating both of them.” “And the Democratic Party does not produce those kind of leaders anymore.”