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No community, rich or poor, urban or suburban, black or white, should be made into a sacrifice zone or dumping ground.
The Quest for Environmental Justice (2005)
Students and young people have fueled every social movement in the United States, including the civil rights, environmental, antiwar, women's movements.
The Quest for Environmental Justice (2005)
Waiting for government to act is recipe for disaster.
The Quest for Environmental Justice (2005)
With its bottom-up approach, this movement has re-defined the term "environment" to include the places where people live, work, play, and go to school, as well as brought attention to how these things interact with the physical and natural world.
The Quest for Environmental Justice (2005)
The environmental protection apparatus is broken and must be fixed. The environmental justice movement has set out a clear goal: to fix this protection apparatus by eliminating unequal enforcement of environmental, civil rights, and public health laws.
The Quest for Environmental Justice (2005)