37 Quotes by Robert Jensen

I think it's a good thing. I bet it'll fill that truck up. It's a pretty giving community and I'm glad to be a part of it.

We still have 1,500 or 1,400 people unidentified from the tsunami. I don't think this one will take that long, but I don't know. There is still a lot of water,

We have consistently been asked to fulfill more responsibilities without being given the concomitant authority, ... we now find ourselves being called upon to perform coordination for multiple agencies and are increasingly required to conduct time-consuming search procedures.

Without identification and a death certificate, there is no life insurance payout or probate.

The world has to address how mass fatality incidents are dealt with. Because ultimately it is the families who suffer.

This is not going to be quick or easy. It is not something that will be handled in a couple of weeks.

The tsunami was the first time that countries wanted a say in how their dead were returned home. Now there is movement between countries, and at Interpol, to ask what agreements can be reached to avoid confusion the next time.

The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others.

History matters. It matters whether we tell the truth about what happened centuries ago, and it matters whether we tell the truth about more recent history. It matters because if we can't we will never be able to face the present, guaranteeing that our future will be doomed.