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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.

— Robert D. Bullard The Quest for Environmental Justice (2005)

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America is segregated, and so is pollution.

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Redlining steals health and wealth. It was bad for America in the 1920s, and its continuing effects are harmful in the 2020s today.

No community, rich or poor, urban or suburban, black or white, should be made into a sacrifice zone or dumping ground.

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Students and young people have fueled every social movement in the United States, including the civil rights, environmental, antiwar, women's movements.

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