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Beverly Wright Quotes

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Beverly Wright is an American environmental justice scholar and the founder of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice at Dillard University. Her research considers the environmental and health inequalities along the Mississippi River Chemical Corridor.

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Environmentalists
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Random Beverly Wright quote

5 quotes

The Harvard study comes out and I’m like, ‘OK, now I understand.' Black people are dying because of where we live.

Article in Vice (2020)

After Katrina, trying to get back to the city was awful for Black people and we still haven’t fully recovered.

Article in Vice (2020)

People of my age group are so angry, Why are we in the same place? We’ve actually lost some of the progress.

Article in Vice (2020)

I don’t think we should talk about reducing greenhouse gases and saving the planet without environmental justice being shoulder to shoulder with that.

Interview (2022)

history of human slavery spawned environmental racism in the United States.

Attribution

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